Nammo Defense Systems Inc., Mesa, Arizona, is being awarded a $10,646,494 firm-fixed-price contract for the manufacture of JM-60 CKU-5 rocket catapult assembly for use on the advanced concept ejection ...

More modern ejection seats, like the ACES 5, developed by Collins Aerospace, are innovating on existing technology to keep pilots safer. A successor to the ACES II system, which was installed in ...

The Advanced Concept Ejection Seats are installed on thousands of aircraft and also supports nearly 30 ... and a load-compensating catapult rocket that varies its thrust based on the occupant ...

The Collins Aerospace Advanced Concept Ejection Seat 5 needs just 1.6 ... the catapult pushes the seat out ... plane at the time of the ejection. If both are high, rockets strapped to the ...

Modern Western ejection seats subject the pilot to forces on the order of 12-14 G. Earlier Soviet designs have been stated to be even more aggressive, often from 20-22 G. Injuries to the spine are ...

The pilot can feel the chemical cartridge ignite under his seat, which activates a catapult that pushes his seat up a rail. One-tenth of a second after yanking the handle, he’s out of there.

The Villa Maria division of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research for Defense (CITEDEF) fired a catapult rocket motor for fighter aircraft ejection seats on April 1, the organization ...

The F-35's unique ejection seat system is designed and produced by Martin-Baker for the U.S. Military. The seat is designated US16E, and it's installed on all variants of the F-35 at a cost ...

When one crew member’s ejection seat did not “fire” — meaning the rocket that shoots it from the plane did not ignite — the aircraft commander canceled the ejection for the rest of the crew.

A team of Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 944th Maintenance Group works together to remove an ejection seat on an F-35 fighter jet at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Sept. 8, 2024.