It would be nearly impossible to steal even a wink of sleep in the stateroom of CVN 76 Ronald Reagan during nighttime air ops in the middle of the Pacific off the Hawaiian coast during the Rim of Pacific (Rimpac) exercise.

Some very high performance hot-rod platforms the Navy has been using for heavy duty acceleration testing highlight a new request for information from the service’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (Navair), which is pondering electromagnetic rails or other technologies to replace or augment two very cool legacy thrusting systems in two locations on opposite shores.

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