A team from the Museum of London Archaeology recently unearthed the lost remains of an experimental catapult last seen more ...

The catapults, identical to those that launch airplanes aboard Navy carriers, are used to tweak and test the 1950s launch technology. But Sulich’s interest lies a few steps away, in a concrete ...

CCTV included the footage of the electromagnetic catapult ... officer on the bridge of the Fujian giving take-off clearance to an aircraft on “position one” of the carrier’s launch system.

Both ships, which are named the Liaoning and Shandong, respectively, lack catapults. However, they are equipped with a ski ramp to launch fixed-wing aircraft, which has so far only included the J-15.

Petersburg-based Nevskoye Design Bureau Sergei Vlasov earlier told TASS that Russia had started work to create an electromagnetic aircraft launch system (an electromagnetic catapult) for aircraft ...