The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), which once produced steam catapults for aircraft carriers in the United States, has long closed its steam catapult production line and disbanded its technical team due to years without orders. Its joint venture in China, Beijing Babcock & Wilcox Company, became a Chinese state-owned enterprise after the U.S. equity was repurchased in 2018, and is now fully owned by Beijing Jingcheng Machinery & Equipment Holding Co., Ltd., with accumulated technical expertise in high-pressure steam systems. In the future, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers will no longer have steam catapults, so cherish it while you can.
This is not a mine tunnel, it's the U.S. military cleaning and maintaining the steam catapult of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN-75 Truman. Military enthusiasts Aircraft carrier #
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