CodeXplain on Instagram: "FOLLOW us 👉🏼 (@code_xplain ) to learn daily! 🤖 Aircraft carriers use a hydraulic cable system so powerful it can bring a jet from full speed to a halt in just seconds. Thick steel cables, called arresting wires, stretch across the landing deck. When a jet’s tail hook catches one, the kinetic energy is redirected through pulleys into massive hydraulic cylinders beneath the deck. These cylinders absorb and release energy using fluid pressure, allowing jets to stop safe