{"id":26497270,"date":"2026-10-04T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/carrier-barricade-explained-nylon-net-aircraft-carrier\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:52:40","slug":"carrier-barricade-explained-nylon-net-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/carrier-barricade-explained-nylon-net-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrier Barricade Explained: The Nylon Net That Catches Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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The pilot flies the jet onto the deck, the tailhook snags one of the arresting cables, and the aircraft stops in a couple of seconds. But what happens when the hook will not come down, or the landing gear is damaged, and the jet still has to come aboard because there is nowhere else to go?<\/p><p>The answer is one of the most dramatic sights in naval aviation: a giant nylon net, raised across the landing area in minutes, that catches the aircraft by its wings. This is the carrier barricade, and while it is rarely used, every carrier crew trains to rig it.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>What it is:<\/strong> An emergency net of nylon webbing raised across a carrier landing area<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>When used:<\/strong> When an aircraft cannot make a normal arrested landing with its tailhook<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Height:<\/strong> The webbing stands about 20 feet high when rigged<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>How it stops a jet:<\/strong> The vertical straps engage the wings; the energy goes through purchase cables to the arresting engines<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Rigging time:<\/strong> A well-trained crew can rig it in under three minutes<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Latest test milestone:<\/strong> April 2019: first barricade arrestment test in 23 years, using the Advanced Arresting Gear<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Carriers Need a Net at All<\/h2><p>A normal carrier landing is an arrested landing. The tailhook engages one of several wires stretched across the deck, and arresting engines below deck absorb the jet&rsquo;s energy. If the pilot misses every wire, the aircraft simply flies off the angled deck and goes around, which is called a bolter.<\/p><p>The system depends on the hook. If the hook is damaged, will not lower, or the aircraft has a landing gear or structural problem that makes a normal trap too dangerous, the crew needs a different way to stop it. If a land base is within range the jet can divert, but far out at sea there may be no runway close enough.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yD7cEKashCU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">Not What You Think on how emergency landings on aircraft carriers work.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How the Barricade Works<\/h2><p>The modern barricade is built from nylon webbing. Upper and lower horizontal loading straps are joined at their ends, with vertical engaging straps hanging between them. When rigged, the webbing stands roughly 20 feet high between two stanchions that are raised from recesses in the flight deck.<\/p><p>Instead of catching a hook, the barricade catches the aircraft itself. The vertical straps wrap over the wings, and the energy of the landing is transmitted through purchase cables to the same kind of arresting engines that the wires use. The jet is dragged to a stop in a tangle of webbing, usually with damage to the aircraft but with the crew unhurt.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/aircraft-carrier-barricade-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Line diagram of a US aircraft carrier barricade showing stanchions, tensioning pendants and deck cable\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The main parts of a carrier barricade: stanchions at each side, upper and lower tensioning pendants, and the deck cable. Diagram: Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Normally the barricade is stowed. It is rigged only when an emergency recovery is needed, and speed matters, because the aircraft overhead may be short of fuel. A well-trained flight deck crew can rig it in under three minutes, which is why carriers practise it regularly.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Straight Decks to the Nylon Barricade<\/h2><p>On the straight-deck carriers of the Second World War and the years that followed, safety nets were part of every landing. A low barrier of about 3 to 4 feet caught the landing gear of any aircraft whose hook missed the wires, and a taller barricade of about 15 feet protected the aircraft parked further forward on the deck.<\/p><p>The early 1950s brought a nylon barricade designed to catch the aircraft by its wings. Writing in the US Naval Institute&rsquo;s Proceedings in November 1953, two <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/united-states-naval-aviation\/\">US Navy<\/a> commanders described how far it had spread.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The barricade, which has been installed in all but two of the Essex class carriers, is essentially a nylon web wing retardation method of arrestment.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Commander Gill and Commander Teel<\/strong> &mdash; US Naval Institute Proceedings, November 1953<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The same article discussed the angled deck, which tilted the landing area eight to ten degrees to port of the ship&rsquo;s centerline. Once aircraft that missed the wires could simply take off again over the side, the everyday barrier was no longer needed. The barricade survived as an emergency device.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/a-6e-intruder-va-196-barricade-uss-enterprise-1978.jpg\" alt=\"A-6E Intruder of VA-196 caught in the barricade on USS Enterprise in 1978\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An A-6E Intruder of Attack Squadron 196 caught in the barricade aboard USS Enterprise in 1978. US Navy photo, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Real Barricade Landing: USS Enterprise, 1978<\/h2><p>The photo above shows exactly why the barricade exists. During a Western Pacific deployment aboard USS Enterprise in 1978, an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/a-6-intruder\/\">A-6E Intruder<\/a> of Attack Squadron 196 came back with its right main landing gear unable to extend fully. According to the US Navy caption, a broken cotter pin had let a nut on the drag brace tighten with each cycle of the gear.<\/p><p>A normal arrested landing on a partly extended gear leg risked a crash on deck. The crew flew the jet into the barricade instead, and the webbing brought it to a stop across the landing area.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r67l_az1J88\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">Footage of an A-6 Intruder night barricade landing on USS Ranger, published by What You Haven&rsquo;t Seen.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Testing a Net You Hope Never to Use<\/h2><p>Because barricade engagements are rare, they are tested on land. At Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, an unmanned <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fa-18-super-hornet\/\">F\/A-18E Super Hornet<\/a> was driven into a barricade on 3 September 1997 by a jet-powered test car, engaging at 110.8 knots and coming to rest about 200 yards later.<\/p><p>In April 2019, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems carried out the first exploratory barricade arrestment test of its Advanced Arresting Gear, the system fitted to the new Ford-class carriers, at the Lakehurst jet car track. An E-2C+ Hawkeye weighing about 46,500 pounds was accelerated into a net connected to the new gear and stopped safely. It was the first barricade test of its kind in 23 years.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #3568e0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Barricades remain a critical safety mechanism to arrest aircraft in an emergency situation.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Rolf Ziesing<\/strong> &mdash; Vice President of Programs, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, April 2019<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Ford-class crews now rig the barricade as part of their regular flight deck drills, as in the photo at the top of this article, taken aboard USS Gerald R. Ford in March 2025.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6v2Sws7d3Fk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">Footage of an F\/A-18C night barricade engagement on USS Constellation, published by What You Haven&rsquo;t Seen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia, Arresting gear; US Naval Institute Proceedings, &ldquo;A Brighter Future for Carrier Aviation&rdquo;, November 1953; Boeing news release, 3 September 1997; Naval Technology, April 2019; US Navy photo captions via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is an aircraft carrier barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">An aircraft carrier barricade is an emergency net of nylon webbing raised across the landing area. It is used when an aircraft cannot make a normal arrested landing with its tailhook. The vertical straps catch the aircraft by its wings and arresting engines below deck absorb the energy.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When does a carrier use the barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A carrier uses the barricade when an aircraft has to land on board but cannot make a normal hook arrestment, for example because the tailhook or landing gear is damaged. Barricade engagements are rare, because tailhooks are designed to be extremely reliable.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long does it take to rig a carrier barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A well-trained flight deck crew can rig a carrier barricade in under three minutes. The barricade is normally stowed and is raised only when an emergency recovery is needed, which is why carrier crews practise rigging it regularly during flight deck drills.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How tall is an aircraft carrier barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">When rigged, the webbing of a modern aircraft carrier barricade stands roughly 20 feet high. It hangs between two stanchions raised from recesses in the flight deck, with upper and lower horizontal loading straps joined by vertical engaging straps.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the difference between a carrier barrier and a barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On straight-deck carriers, the barrier was a low net of about 3 to 4 feet that caught the landing gear if the hook missed the wires. The barricade was a taller net that protected aircraft parked forward. The angled deck made barriers unnecessary, and the barricade survives as an emergency device.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Has the Ford-class Advanced Arresting Gear been tested with a barricade?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. In April 2019 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems carried out the first exploratory barricade arrestment test of its Advanced Arresting Gear at Lakehurst, New Jersey. An E-2C+ Hawkeye weighing about 46,500 pounds was stopped safely. It was the first barricade test of its kind in 23 years.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is an aircraft carrier barricade?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"An aircraft carrier barricade is an emergency net of nylon webbing raised across the landing area. It is used when an aircraft cannot make a normal arrested landing with its tailhook. 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