The Navy is preparing to launch the first ship-board tests of a new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System designed to replace steam catapults and propel fighter jets and other aircraft off the deck ...

The Navy plans to fix the software on its new carrier-based electromagnetic catapult system so that it can launching F/A-18s and Growlers carrying additional external fuel tanks under the wings, ...

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman slingshot an unmanned aircraft into the skies Thursday at a facility in Patuxent River, Md., the first of a series of shore-based catapult-to-flight tests over the ...

The US Navy is full of time-honored traditions. A personal one for naval aviators is known as a "boot shoot." Catapult officers, known as shooters, launch their boots off a flight deck in a final ...

The Navy said Thursday it plans to fix the catapults on its newest aircraft carrier so the system doesn’t cause too much stress on warplanes fitted with external fuel tanks. Bloomberg News reported ...

The Navy accepted delivery last week of the future USS Gerald Ford, the first in a new class of supercarriers that includes electric catapults criticized by President Trump. Trump said in interview ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy is starting tests next week for a fix to a critical safety issue found on the F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter, the head of F-35 Joint Program Office told reporters ...

An F/A-18E Super Hornet is launched during a test of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) at Naval Air Systems Command, Lakehurst, N.J., on Dec. 18, 2010. (Navy) The state-of-the-art ...

For the first time, the U.S. Navy has catapulted the bat-winged X-47B drone into flight. The test conducted Thursday wasn’t at sea, but rather at a shore-based catapult facility at Naval Air Station ...

President Donald Trump apparently doesn't like digital. In an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, Trump railed against what he called a "digital catapult system" the Navy was using on the ...