Electromagnetic catapult system allows for heavier and more advanced aircraft, such as KJ-600 airborne early warning and ...

China has launched its third aircraft carrier and the first to feature a catapult aircraft launch system. The ship designed and built in China was christened as “Fujian” named after the ...

Spain is the latest nation to look at introducing carrier-based drones, which it plans to integrate on its sole aircraft ...

The new Electric Launch System for Unmanned Aircraft allows UAS operations on a variety ... on a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier shows the catapult installed beside the ski jump used ...

China's third aircraft carrier ... catapult launch system] enables it [the Fujian] to support additional fighter aircraft, fixed-wing early-warning aircraft, and more rapid flight operations ...

NATO classifies it as a Yulan-class landing helicopter assault craft, similar to Western amphibious assault ships, which are different from aircraft carriers ... catapult system designed to launch ...

When aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy make ready to launch their planes ... and jet fighters often need a large and cumbersome catapult to boost them up to flying speed. And on a hot, calm ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.