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That looks even more amusing than I pictured in my head.
The HMS Queen Elizabeth (brand new British aircraft carrier) has this too.
Well it still looks ridiculous.
I mean, the US runs a bunch of amphibious assault ships like the Wasp and America classes and LPDs and stuff that don't have a catapult either. They don't do the ski jump, but same "aircraft's own power is used to get above stall speed by the time it goes over the edge" thing.
For all I know, there's no better way to launch an airplane off a boat. I just think it looks silly. It looks like the boat is made of rubber.
I've toyed with the idea of using huge rotary-wing drones to autonomously lift the aircraft, do launch and recovery. Then you don't need a runway at all, and a lot of the constraints on the form of an aircraft carrier go away.
The US has been doing work on aerial aircraft carriers recently that can recover UAVs autonomously, so the recovery stuff is already being worked on:
https://www.twz.com/41042/gremlins-drones-could-be-reloaded-inside-their-mothership-transport-aircraft
But if you use a ship as a carrier, then you don't have the kind of weight and payload limitations that you do with an aircraft.