The Navy in 2003 established a program to develop a new arresting gear system to safely land airplanes on its next-generation aircraft carriers. Now after years of technological problems ...

Ford-class (CVN-78) of aircraft carriers after the costs for the General Atomics-built Advanced Arresting Gear have more than doubled, USNI News has learned. The troubled AAG system has lagged ...

TINIAN, North Marianas Islands -- Marine Wing Support Squadrons 171 and 172 completed the installation of the M31 Marine Corps expeditionary arresting gear system at West Field, Tinian ...

The AAG, a General Atomics turbo-electric aircraft-recovery system built as a more advanced alternative to the MK 7 hydraulic arresting gear used on the Navy's Nimitz-class carriers, is part of a ...

The Navy’s newest aircraft recovery system, Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), successfully completed the system’s most demanding test event to date with 22 aircraft arrestments in just over 26 ...

The General Atomics built Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) was found to have a design ... have to get Lakehurst to start testing the upgraded system.” The flaw was found in the AAG’s water ...

The Advanced Arresting Gear, one of more than 20 new technologies incorporated into the Ford-class carriers, is a system of tensioned wires that the planes snag with tailhooks, a necessary system ...

The electromagnetic launch system on the new carrier Gerald R. Ford has issues that mean it might not be ready for the furious sortie rate of a big fight, according to a Navy report. (Navy) A Navy ...

The carrier’s new electromagnetic-powered aircraft launch system (EMALS) and the advanced arresting gear are two of the much-touted technologies unique to Ford-class carriers. EMALS uses stored ...

What goes up must come down. The counterpoint of the launching system is the arresting gear used to safely land an aircraft back on an aircraft carrier’s deck. Easier said than done. Most modern ...

The Advanced Weapons Elevators with electromagnetic motors, Advanced Arresting Gear, and Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System were issues during the development and construction of the first-in ...