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USS John F. Kennedy catapults 80,000-pound vehicles into river to test aircraft launch system
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1:24Now PlayingA wild video shows wheeled vehicles weighing up to 80,000 lbs each being catapulted into a Virginia river from the flight deck of the US Navy’s new supercarrier USS John F. Kennedy to test the vessel’s aircraft launch system.
The heart-pounding footage, released by the shipbuilder Hunting Ingalls Industries last week, shows orange, car-like vehicles traveling more than 300 feet down the catapult track on the supercarrier’s bow at speeds topping 150 mph, before soaring into the air and landing with a huge splash in the James River.
The cars were then retrieved from the water and relaunched until the the test program wrapped up.
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