The developpement lead was given to Wargaming's office in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The game was meant to be a sequel or spin-off franchise to World of Tanks, and use the same mechanics than its predecessor and the less successful World of Warplanes. Unfortunatly on his second attempt he clipped the side of the ship, was knocked unconcious, then drowned in the cockpit.In august 2011, Wargaming announced the developpement of then titled World of Battleships during the europan Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany. He literally dodged the main tower and put it down on the front deck section of a cruiser. Interestingly it was a british pilot that first landed a plane on a ship. US was the first to launch planes with the help of none other than the wright brothers :D They gave them the prototype for the catapult system, only there version dropped a big weight, not a great idea on the deck of a ship so eventually a steam piston system with many pullys was used. If they are right the first from the ground up carrier was ark royal, they solved the issue of the offset bridge by extending the deck on the opposite side after trying all sorts to stop her listing because of the weight imbalance. Not sure how much i trust there research as it was a channel 5 documentry (channel 5 was like the poor relation here in the uk for years haha) Watched a documentry on you tube last week called biggest aircraft carrier. I don't really know what the French were doing. The British Royal Navy was the first to build a converted carrier of sorts and the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to build a purpose built carrier from the ground up. Unless I have my history completely wrong, the USN was the first to launch a fixed wing aircraft off a ship. Would expect their name to be from one of those No idea why a French term was used to be honest. Wasnt it america and japan doing the carrier arms race first Originally posted by Ashardalon:did france even have carriers back then?

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