
The USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN-78) Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapult went down for five days during at-sea testing last week, the Navy revealed June 7. On June 2, the EMALS went down just before a scheduled flight deck operation cycle and was not ready again until June 7. The Navy said after several days of troubleshooting and assessing a fault in the system’s power handling elements, “embarked EMALS experts and Ford’s crew restored the system to enable the…