Trump tells troops that future US supercarriers are 'going to use steam' in a weird rant about an ob

Hate to say it but if the EM won't work reliably....but I have not seen anything on the EM not working.

Trump is a nutjob. If he would have been born a hundred years ago, he would have thought electricity was a gov't plot.

can we have airships with vat grown crystals and everything?

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/steampunk-names.php

Here's the captain:



Some crew:

that tRump either has a problem with General Atomics, the builder of the new, electromagnetic launch system (EMALS) or that he's got a pal who still makes steam catapults!

for testing purposes.

The orange test device is called a 'deadload'.

Coal: The Republican Party’s cutting 21st century technology!

Think how much money Trump could make.

geez. A US President saying this to the troops who he was rallying with and silence from the press (??).



https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-future-aircraft-carriers-are-going-to-use-steam-2019-5

............ During Tuesday's talk, Trump polled US 7th Fleet troops aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, asking the crowd of sailors and Marines which was better, steam or electromagnetic catapults.

The troops overwhelmingly supported the use of steam; however, there were some who cheered for the newer system.

Trump — a staunch proponent of traditional steam catapults that are less complex than the alternatives, which he believes a person must be "Albert Einstein" to fully understand and operate — quipped that service members who supported the use of electromagnetic catapults were working for the enemy.

As he has done many times throughout his presidency, Trump championed the use of steam catapults to launch aircraft from the Navy's new carriers.



"Steam's only worked for about 65 years perfectly," the president explained. "They have a $900 million cost overrun on this crazy electric catapult. I said, 'What was wrong with steam?'"

"We want to go with steam," he further remarked. "They are always coming up with new ideas ... They want to show next, next, next. And we all want innovation, but it's too much. There's never been anything like the steam catapult."

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He argued that the "delicate" electromagnetic catapults are more expensive, less likely to hold up in battle and no more efficient than the steam catapults.

"I think I'm going to put an order — when we build a new aircraft carrier, we're going to use steam," he said, suggesting a radical overhaul to a key Navy research and development project.

Trebuchet kind of guy. "What's wrong with slinging some rocks and fireballs?"

Although he may want his name on all three...

I wonder if Fat Donnie can even describe the operation of the current steam powered catapult system, much less the more efficient electric one that is in the process of replacing it. He's always had this bug in his bonnet about returning to steam catapults. He really likes old things to protect his ass: medieval walls, steam catapults (only because they don't make rubber slingshots), and Mitch McConnell.

This is the same man who offered NASA unlimited funds to put a man on Mars by the end of his first term. He may be a "stable genius," but he sure isn't an engineer.

What an idiot. Doesn't know what he doesn't know.

I guess he didn't like answer he got when he asked the last navy guy who actually had some useful experience and knowledge of these systems, so he decided to ask a bunch of other people who don't even have a catapult on their ship.

place. Refitting for steam would take more space and displace systems that are finalized and installed.