The U.S. Navy awarded San Diego-based General Atomics a $52 million order for advanced arresting gear equipment.
The Navy will use the equipment to test the technology.
The advanced arresting gear will be a departure for aircraft carriers. Fighter jets will continue to land on carrier decks as usual, catching hold of a cable. The mechanism pulling on the cable, however, will be based on an electric motor rather than the standard Mk-7 hydraulic arresting gear.
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