Advanced Arresting Gear

The AAG is designed for a broader range of aircraft, including UAVs, while reducing manpower and maintenance.

Rotary engines which use simple energy-absorbing water turbines (or twisters) coupled to a large induction motor provide finer control of the arresting forces.

Testing was delayed four and a half years due primarily to a serious problem with the water twisters, discovered early in 2012.

Initially there was an underestimation of the forces involved inside the water twister because it is a three-dimensional flow field.

Jamie "Coach" Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) performed the first arrested landing and catapult launch from Gerald R. Ford in an F/A-18F Super Hornet.