The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, ...

An aircraft can launch once every 20-seconds ... Summary: The USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, represents a century of U.S. naval aviation since the ...

President Biden announced the names of new Navy aircraft carriers: USS William J. Clinton and USS George W. Bush, which will ...

A Nimitz-class American aircraft carrier is big. Really, really big. After all, it has to be, in order to launch and recover a wide array of military aircraft. But when it's not catapulting F/A-18 ...

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

An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye assigned to the ‘Black Eagles’ of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 113 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

MANILA, Philippines — The USS Carl Vinson, a US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is in the South China Sea for “routine operations.” According to the US Pacific Command ...

Of course, the naming of warships, and especially aircraft carriers­, ­hasn't been without controversy. The choice of name for the seventh Nimitz-class carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74 ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F ... An improvement on the Nimitz class' steam-powered catapult, the EMALS has a higher launch capacity, sending aircraft barreling down the 300-foot track at ...

Nimitz-class carriers that the Navy started using in 1975. Technology upgrades include a new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, known as EMALS, that launches aircraft from the ship ...