And the ski ramp way way before being fitted on the Portsmouth beasts
In 1952 the RN's HMS Triumph trialed the first angled deck aircraft carrier. The Illustrious class aircraft carriers were the first carriers with armored decks. HMS Argus was the first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck. So present day aircraft carriers owe a lot of their innovations to the Royal Navy.
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