Here’s the raw footage of last weekend’s first-ever aircraft launch by the Navy’s revolutionary new electromagnetic catapult, known as EMALS. Pretty cool, huh? Via Gizmodo.
From the monthly archives:
December 2010
This is where Santa has to turn when some of the eight tiny reindeer are down with the flu. The posted video shows the Swedish air force spooling up the Viggen for a round-the-world sleighride to expedite St. Nick’s list… Happy Holidays from Defense Tech!
A tapped in source tells Defense Tech that the Pentagon recently inked a deal with Russia’s largest state-controlled arms export company to purchase an unknown number of Mi-17 transport helicopters for the Afghan air force. You might remember that others have reported shady deals and poorly-executed negotiations by the Army’s Threat Systems Management Office based […]
With tensions on the Korean peninsula at a boiling point, the U.S.’ Second Infantry Division stationed there is set to receive upgraded M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles starting this month. “While this is not an increase in the number of U.S. combat vehicles on the Korean Peninsula,” said Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, 8th Army […]
In case you missed it, the Navy and General Atomics made history this past weekend when they launched an aircraft from the new electromagnetic launch system, or EMALS, for the first time. As we reported yesterday over at sister site DoDBuzz, the sea service successfully launched an F/A-18E Super Hornet using the new system on […]
