Taken together, the rapid reconfiguration of a commercial cargo ship into both a missile platform and a potential drone ...

Images have emerged of a Chinese medium-sized cargo ship, docked at Shanghai’s Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard, fitted with a ...

Videos and pictures emerged over the weekend showing a red-colored catapult test 'truck' on Fujian's deck. One clip, apparently taken by a passenger in a plane flying past overhead, looks to have ...

Pictures have emerged in China that appear to show a truck-mounted electromagnetic catapult system for large drones on a ...

Military magazine article speculates that interoperability may be behind the early warning plane’s lack of aerial refuelling ...

Unlike steam catapults, which use pressurized steam, a launch valve and a piston to catapult aircraft, EMALS uses a precisely determined amount of electrical energy. As a result, EMALS is designed to ...

The US Navy is full of time-honored traditions. A personal one for naval aviators is known as a "boot shoot." Catapult officers, known as shooters, launch their boots off a flight deck in a final ...

An aerial drone photo taken on May 7, 2024 shows China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, during its maiden sea trials. China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, completed maiden sea trials on ...

An electromagnetic catapult on the aircraft carrier Fujian stops at the end of the track after completing a regular test, ...

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman slingshot an unmanned aircraft into the skies Thursday at a facility in Patuxent River, Md., the first of a series of shore-based catapult-to-flight tests over the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Perhaps more significant is that a Ford-class carrier is 100,000 tons fully loaded, while a British Queen Elizabeth-class carrier – which has a ski jump and 36 F-35Bs ...

For more than 60 years, the U.S. Navy has relied on steam power to catapult planes off the decks of aircraft carriers, leaving behind a telltale trail of steam rising from the track. A new generation ...