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Небольшое описание из той же эхи

Вообще можно было бы попробовать в одном масштабе их наложить одно на другое - У2 и авианосец.

I doubt that U-2s operated from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin given the
availability of land bases in Thailand Taiwan the Philippines Guam etc. Why
put up with the extra danger and the disruption to carrier operations if you
didn't have to? But U-2s did fly operationally from carriers at least once.

For carrier use the CIA converted three U-2As to U-2Gs. They receieved
strengthened landing gear a tail hook and perhaps most importantly lift
dumpers on the upper wing surfaces that kept the aircraft from bouncing and
floating on landing. The U-2Gs carried civilian registration and Office of Naval
Research (ONR) markings (not NRO).

One of the U-2Gs flew the only documented operational mission from a carrier
the USS Ranger in 1964. It monitored French nuclear tests at Mururoa in French
Polynesia.

This was successful enough that a cadre of CIA pilots were routinely carrier
qualified thereafter.

As a result of experience with the U-2G the larger U-2R was designed with
carrier operations in mind. Provision for a hook was standard and the outer 6-ft
of wing folded so that it could fit the elevators. This was tested on the
carrier America in 1969.

While carrier ops worked and were useful when land bases were not available a
carrier battlegroup was much too ostentatious for most intelligence missions.

U-2s were also tested under the Navy's EP-X sea-surveillance program those
these tests were all land-based.

Sources:

Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified by Norman Polmar (MBI 2001)
Lockheed's Skunkworks by Jay Miller (Aerofax 1995)