New Navy Electro-Magnetic Catapult Will Launch an F/A-18 from the USS Ford Next Year
[Kris Osborn]
Kris Osborn
Thursday at 4:06 PM
The Navy's new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System will be operational next year - and launch an F/A-18 off of the deck of the service's emerging next-generation carrier - the USS Ford.
Next year, the Navy plans to use electromagnetic force to launch an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet up into the sky off of the deck of its emerging next-generation aircraft carrier next year – the USS Gerald R. Ford.
An operational launch of the Navy’s Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, will mark the first time in 60-years that a fighter has shot off of a ship without using the current steam-catapult systems, senior Navy officials have said.
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