After the war, the Soviet Union examined Graf Zeppelin and declined to continue with a design it had once considered copying. That judgment sits beside French and Italian interest in related aircraft-handling concepts, so the system was not an isolated German curiosity. Wartime experience would have exposed these elaborate arrangements to damage and disruption. More rugged British and American carrier systems were likelier to survive demands that impressive paper engineering could not escape.
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What the Soviet postwar assessment says about the design
The Soviet Union’s rejection of the captured carrier, despite earlier interest in copying it, reinforces the gap between its elaborate handling system and postwar operational expectations.