The Navy’s $13 Billion Supercarrier Has a Truck Launcher

Well this looks like the most fun you can have with pants on

By The Editors
February 6, 2017 9:00 am

The nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford weighs 100,000 tons and covers 4.5 acres (yes, ACRES). It cost $12.9 billion. And it has a jet catapult system that launches … trucks. Big ones.

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Why the Navy felt launching trucks off the 1,100-foot-long carrier — which can hit 30 knots and cruise for 20 years without refueling — was the best way to test its catapult system isn’t important.

Point is, it works.

America.

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