your wrong ..biggest aircraft to operate off carriers A3d-2 heavy attack outfits
had ready queens 70 k pounds could launch off Forrestal class carriers sitting still ( cva 59, 60 61, 62 //light on fuel but could tank up once airborne ..could carry a couple of nukes /or iron bombs ..also the a4d-2 and the skyraiders AD-6 or 7 ? could carry the big ones ..these aircraft no longer around but guessing usn never gave up this ability ..hoot hoot VAH-9
My step dad was a naval aviator in the early to mid sixties. He said back in the day the A3D stood for “all three dead”.