Monday, September 28, 2015

New launch tech tested on the USS Gerald Ford.

The Navy's new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a fully electric, magnetically-powered way of launching fighter jets and drones off an aircraft carrier and into the sky. It works based on the same basic principles of a railgun, while being distinct from the Navy's literal railgun.
A unit on the USS Gerald Ford started testing with a weighted sled earlier this month, but a recent video shows a new, impressive feat: Making a weighted sled that weighs as much as a car literally skip like a stone.

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