page_title: CATOBAR
hierarchical_section_title: CATOBAR
caption_attribution_description: CVN angled flight deck animation illustrating advantages of offsetting the recovery area. It allows for aircraft recovery and launches at the same time without the risk of collision posed by such operations on an axial deck aircraft carrier. This is a new version of the animation, using textured planes and flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). An F/A-18E on catapult 2 takes off, (note steam escaping as catapult releases) followed by a S-3 which bolters, followed by the launch of an E-2C on catapult 1. Finally an EA-6B catching the wire for a successful landing. Also on the flightdeck are another S-3, several F/A-18Es, and an SH-60.
context_page_description: CATOBAR is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off and land on the ship using arrestor wires.
  Although this system is costlier than alternative methods, it provides greater flexibility in carrier operations, since it imposes less onerous design elements on fixed wing aircraft than alternative methods of launch and recovery such as STOVL or STOBAR, allowing for a greater payload for more ordnance and/or fuel. CATOBAR can launch aircraft that lack a high thrust to weight ratio, including heavier non-fighter aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and Grumman C-2 Greyhound.
context_section_description: CATOBAR ("Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Under this technique, aircraft launch using a catapult-assisted take-off and land on the ship (the recovery phase) using arrestor wires.
  Although this system is costlier than alternative methods, it provides greater flexibility in carrier operations, since it imposes less onerous design elements on fixed wing aircraft than alternative methods of launch and recovery such as STOVL or STOBAR, allowing for a greater payload for more ordnance and/or fuel. CATOBAR can launch aircraft that lack a high thrust to weight ratio, including heavier non-fighter aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and Grumman C-2 Greyhound.
caption: Flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing catapult layout