Arresting gear

Arrestor cable - cable used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands. Article “Arresting gear” in English Wikipedia has 58.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Arresting gear” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Arresting gear”, its content was written by 121 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 304 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 458 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1105 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37179 in January 2008
• Global: #65048 in January 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #109924 in January 2012
• Global: #130114 in December 2016

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Arresting gear		58.0721
2	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		33.1973
3	Chinese (zh) 阻拦索		22.1687
4	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		21.524
5	Ukrainian (uk) Аерофінішер		20.0107
6	Esperanto (eo) Kaptokablo		19.8499
7	German (de) Fangseil		18.6413
8	Arabic (ar) حبال الكبح		15.8824
9	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		15.0729
10	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		7.8737

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Arresting gear" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arresting gear		1 223 194
2	Russian (ru) Аэрофинишёр		129 833
3	Polish (pl) Aerofiniszer		88 492
4	German (de) Fangseil		68 801
5	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		54 558
6	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		50 458
7	Chinese (zh) 阻拦索		27 038
8	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		16 779
9	Arabic (ar) حبال الكبح		11 744
10	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		10 260

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Arresting gear" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arresting gear		4 485
2	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		745
3	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		516
4	Russian (ru) Аэрофинишёр		480
5	Chinese (zh) 阻拦索		401
6	German (de) Fangseil		233
7	Polish (pl) Aerofiniszer		220
8	Arabic (ar) حبال الكبح		81
9	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		74
10	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		51

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Arresting gear" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arresting gear		121
2	German (de) Fangseil		42
3	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		38
4	Russian (ru) Аэрофинишёр		29
5	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		19
6	Polish (pl) Aerofiniszer		15
7	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		10
8	Chinese (zh) 阻拦索		10
9	Ukrainian (uk) Аерофінішер		8
10	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Arresting gear" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arresting gear		1
2	Arabic (ar) حبال الكبح		0
3	German (de) Fangseil		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Kaptokablo		0
5	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		0
6	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		0
7	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		0
8	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		0
9	Polish (pl) Aerofiniszer		0
10	Russian (ru) Аэрофинишёр		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Arresting gear" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Arresting gear		458
2	Polish (pl) Aerofiniszer		183
3	Japanese (ja) アレスティング・ギア		122
4	French (fr) Brin d'arrêt		101
5	Russian (ru) Аэрофинишёр		60
6	Ukrainian (uk) Аерофінішер		50
7	German (de) Fangseil		49
8	Chinese (zh) 阻拦索		29
9	Hebrew (he) כבל עצירה		20
10	Korean (ko) 어레스팅 기어		19

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حبال الكبح
de	German Fangseil
en	English Arresting gear
eo	Esperanto Kaptokablo
fr	French Brin d'arrêt
he	Hebrew כבל עצירה
ja	Japanese アレスティング・ギア
ko	Korean 어레스팅 기어
pl	Polish Aerofiniszer
ru	Russian Аэрофинишёр
uk	Ukrainian Аерофінішер
zh	Chinese 阻拦索

Best Rank

English: #109924 01.2012

Global: #130114 12.2016

Best Rank

English: #37179 01.2008

Global: #65048 01.2008

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