Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

CCTV included the footage of the electromagnetic catapult system in a report last week, with a view from an unidentified aircraft hurtling along the deck. But the report also dampened speculation ...

A team from the Museum of London Archaeology recently unearthed the lost remains of an experimental catapult last seen more ...

Enhancements to both of the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers are possible in the near future, a politican has said.

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The F/A-18 tried landing on the USS Harry S. Truman but went overboard after the arrestment failed, a defense official said.

Tomsk scientists are developing a mathematical model of an electromagnetic catapult with power supply from a pulsed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator. It will determine the properties of materials ...

USS Harry S. Truman has lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets and collided with a commercial vessel.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence is currently examining a variant of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian to replace the Merlin HM2 Airborne ...

The UK’s £3.5 billion Queen Elizabeth-class carriers face ongoing issues, including a months-long hot water failure, sparking ...

Innovative drone designs cheat aerodynamics with catapult-launched fixed-wing kamikaze drones and tandem rotor configurations ...

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