Admittedly, my only real experience with naval aviation was when a carrier my ship was alongside in the Med during an UNREP (resupplying by lines and helos) scrambled its ready fighters as we performed an emergency breakaway when a Russian cruiser steamed directly ahead of us and stopped.
The Russian ship moved out of way. Quickly.
They ****ed with us like that sometimes. I'm sure we did the same to them.
That shit was LOUD, too.