USN sticks to AAG

The U.S. Navy has been satisfied with the recent developments of the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) and has decided that the new system to stop carrier-borne aircraft will be installed on board the next USS John F. Kennedy.

Advance Arresting Gear for US Navy CVN78 Ford Carriers
By US Navy Air Systems (NAVAIR) (www.navair.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This comes after the system had a thorough review by an AAG Resource Requirements Review Board (R3B) in November 2016.

The service had previously explore the option of retaining the legacy Mk-7 arresting gear system for the new ship.