Heavier aircraft can't get airborne from a ramp at full weight. Catapults can launch almost anything, including heavy, fully armed strike aircraft. That trade-off has shaped how different navies ...

Kratos' ramp-launched Valkyrie drone. One of Ukraine’s newest strike drones—the UAC FP-1—travels as far as 1,000 miles with a warhead weighing up to 250 pounds, likely making it ...