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From: LindyBill	4/7/2007 10:43:04 AM
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No more steam cat. Lots more detail at site. EMALS: Next Gen Catapult DEFENSE TECH CVN 78 painting.jpg The newly-named USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the first of the next generation of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, and with these ships are plans for the incorporation of radical new technology. The most basic mission of an aircraft carrier is to launch and recover . . . duh . . . aircraft. The Electro-magnetic Aircraft Launch System is being fielded to take care of what we call the "shooting off the pointy end" or launch part. In very basic terms, the legacy steam catapult system uses energy to "push" the shuttle down the track to launch aircraft. EMALS uses magnetic fields to "pull" the shuttle to affect the same end. defensetech.org

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