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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Electricity Assaults Last Bastion of Steam Power
The Navy is working on an electric catapult. From a story on Tactical World: "Newer, heavier and faster aircraft will result in launch energy requirements approaching the limits of the steam catapult system."
F-35 Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS)
Update February 2017 replaced missing video.
Update February 2022 replaced missing video (Electromagnetic Catapult System for US NAVY aircraft carriers) with something similar but a little newer.
Wow! Without afterburners even!
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