South China Morning Post.
China’s jet launch system for next carrier ‘better than US design’, top military engineer claims.
China’s jet launch system for next carrier ‘better than US design’, top military engineer claims.
China’s systems to launch and catch carrier-based aircraft are more advanced than those designed for the new generation of US supercarriers, according to a Chinese expert in the technology.
Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, a top engineer working
on the project, said on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress
on Monday that China had made breakthroughs in its advanced arresting
gear (AAG) system designed to retrieve aircraft at sea, while the US had
stumbled.
Chinese are testing a new ElectroMagnetic catapult launch EMALS system for its future aircraft carriers.— A Nationalist (@Peacef_Warrior) January 20, 2017
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“The Gerald Ford cancelled its AAG and reverted
to its original [arresting wire] system. We have no such problem,” he
said, referring to the US’ new class of aircraft carrier.
The US Navy uses the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) to launch aircraft from carriers. But instead... https://t.co/gDbv2Rv9VP— TGWTCT (@tgwtct) December 15, 2016
He also said China’s electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) was more advanced than comparable US technology.
“We have long overcome [all technical
difficulties in EMALS]. I have already moved on from this [area of
research and development],” he said.
Saying he was just a scientific researcher, Ma
declined to say when his advanced technologies would be installed on
China’s homegrown carriers.
Beijing-based naval expert Li Jie said Ma had made “a certain advances” in AAG technology, compared with the US.
Macau-based military observer Antony Wong Dong
said the US AAG engineers had underestimated the difficulty of
developing the technology and China may have been able to take note of
this to make progress.
“Ma’s team .... may have learned lessons from their US counterparts, and made some breakthrough on AAG development,” Wong said. South China Morning Post.
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS— World Air Photo (@planenut27) September 27, 2016
VIDEO: 2.35min. Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) First Test Launch. https://t.co/84oIXfH1bc pic.twitter.com/JXZHznxPdE
State-of-the-art #CVN78 #tech includes the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) pic.twitter.com/E0WtdZ7jgp— Osborne Transformer (@Osborne_Xfmr) May 18, 2016
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