{"id":34171,"date":"2018-10-30T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34171"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:41:28","slug":"navy-to-use-u-s-aircraft-launch-system-in-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/navy-to-use-u-s-aircraft-launch-system-in-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy to use U.S. aircraft launch system in ship:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj9juq7_KjXAhUJqI8KHUgOCsQQqOcBCCUwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fnavy-to-use-us-aircraft-launch-system-in-ship%2Farticle19988220.ece&amp;usg=AOvVaw3bjz2eVXWX2u9tuCHI-SK2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navy to use U.S. aircraft launch system in ship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Navy is likely to go with an advanced catapult-based aircraft launch mechanism (CATOBAR) from the U.S. for its second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-II).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been exploring the possibility of installing the U.S. electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the significance of EMALS?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the older generation of CATOBAR was powered by a steam catapult, EMALS uses an electric motor-driven catapult instead, which allows the launch of much heavier aircraft and also reduces the stress on the aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMALS will allow \u00a0to operate heavy surveillance aircraft in addition to heavy fighters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the significance of IAC-II?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Navy envisages the IAC-II to be around 65,000 tonnes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be capable of carrying over 50 aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Navy is also keen on nuclear propulsion, which would give it unlimited range and endurance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>CATOBAR:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ATOBAR(Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery or Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery) is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off and land on the ship (the recovery phase) using arrestor wires.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s significance: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides greater flexibility in carrier operations, since it imposes less onerous design elements on fixed wing aircraft than alternative methods of launch and recovery such as STOVL or STOBAR, allowing for a greater payload for more ordinance and\/or fuel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CATOBAR can launch aircraft that lack a high thrust to weight ratio, including heavier non-fighter aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and Grumman C-2 Greyhound.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy to use U.S. aircraft launch system in ship: Context: The Navy is likely to go with an advanced catapult-based aircraft launch mechanism (CATOBAR) from the U.S. for its second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-II). India has been exploring the possibility of installing the U.S. electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). What are the significance of EMALS?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/navy-to-use-u-s-aircraft-launch-system-in-ship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy to use U.S. aircraft launch system in ship:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704758700},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}