2024-03-04 22:27:00
Cars launched into the water from an aircraft carrier. It is not a video game or scenes from an action movie, but rather it is an exercise carried out by the United States Navy and that has attracted attention due to the fact that vehicles are sent overboard at full speed.
All this happens on the USS John F. Kennedy, one of the last aircraft carriers in the North American country. She weighs more than 100,000 tons and is almost 340 meters long, figures that make her the second largest nuclear-powered Ford class in the United States Navy.
The investment for this aircraft carrier was US$11.3 billion and it has capacity for 90 combat aircraft. But the idea of the testing period is to test if it is capable of catapulting vehicles through its platform, thinking that later it will be done with airplanes. Now, it is with adapted vehicles that have a much lower cost than a fighter or an F-18 Super Hornet like the one in the movie Top Gun.
The novelty of the aircraft carrier is that it has a special electromagnetic catapult, which is a propulsion system that helps planes take off in just a few meters. Replaces currently existing steam catapults on US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
John F. Kennedy CVN 79 Dead Load Testing
“As we make steady progress in the construction, testing and renovation of John F. Kennedy, reaching the dead load testing phase is a visual demonstration of how far we have come,” said Lucas Hicks, vice president of the John F. Kennedy. “It is clear from the thousands of written messages that our shipbuilders and their families appreciate and understand the importance of our work. “We are proud of the incredible teamwork that has brought us to this point and remain committed to delivering this powerful aircraft carrier to the fleet so the crew can carry out the important mission ahead.”
Then, just like when stones are thrown into rivers or lakes, it might be seen that 36-ton vehicles were thrown from the aircraft carrier that ran aground in the James River in Virginia, a weight similar to what an airplane can have.
Portaviones John F. Kennedy
And supported by this aforementioned platform, they are launched at 240 km/h, as seen in the video published by Huntington Ingalls Industries.
The vehicles shoot out at that speed and sometimes perform “duckling”, just like those done when a stone is thrown into the river.
Now, the exercise does not involve damaging the river, so the Navy collects them and reuses them in new tests.
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