Grumman C-2 Greyhound

This is the aircraft that handles carrier onboard delivery, or COD, which means getting mail, spare parts, personnel, and equipment to and from the ship at sea.

The Osprey takes off vertically from the flight deck, transitions to horizontal flight like a conventional turboprop, and can operate at ranges the older C2 Greyhound couldn't reach.

Watching a tiltrotor aircraft transition from hover to forward flight off a carrier deck is one of the more genuinely striking things in modern aviation.

Rounding out the air wing are the MH-60R and MH-60S Seahawks.

but with the email system i mean it does offer a lot of advantages over steam i mean steam is a fairly old system really came into play in the 1940s and 1950s you know these ships producing a lot of steam nuclear carriers can produce a lot of steam and it's just a resource that you have available but while it can launch aircraft you know, it's a very violent being in a cat shot.

I mean, I've actually been in a C2 Greyhound during a cat shot and it is like you go from zero to 4G very fast and it's very, very intense.

And of course, when you build an airplane to deal with that kind of stress, you really need to optimize it for that.

You know, you're going to pay a penalty everywhere else because the aircraft needs to be so hardened just to deal with that one aspect of its flight.