Taken together, the rapid reconfiguration of a commercial cargo ship into both a missile platform and a potential drone ...

The US Navy is full of time-honored traditions. A personal one for naval aviators is known as a "boot shoot." Catapult officers, known as shooters, launch their boots off a flight deck in a final ...

An electromagnetic catapult on the aircraft carrier Fujian stops at the end of the track after completing a regular test, shown on a program by China Central Television on Decembe ...

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For years, Microsoft has been delivering speedy and accurate Bing results with experimental servers called Project Catapult, which have now received an architectural upgrade. The Catapult servers use ...

After males of the orb-weaving spider Philoponella prominens mate with a female, they quickly launch themselves away, researchers report. Using a mechanism that hadn't been described before, the male ...