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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Navy tests new carrier launch system


The U.S. Navy's new launch system for carrier-based aircraft has demonstrated its generator-sharing capabilities for multiple catapults.

The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, replacing the steam catapult system on aircraft carriers, has six subsystems that work together and share components to power the four catapults on the ship but earlier tests only involved the use of one launcher.

The latest demonstration at Joint Base McGuire-Dix at Lakehurst, N.J., involved four launchers.

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