>President Donald Trump has directed the US Navy to scrap the modern electromagnetic launch system on an upcoming aircraft carrier and instead revert to an older, steam-powered catapult method — potentially adding billions to its price tag and delaying its deployment into the late 2030s.I voted for this.
American military equipment is nothing but gold plated turds
>>540799412But why
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>>540799477Your mom is a gold plated turd.
>>540799520>>540799521Strait status muttbros?
This is what a decaying empire looks like, as an anti-American I wish Donald Trump ruled the United States for 10 more years, the damage he's inflicting upon America is amazing and irreversible.
>>540799412For all we know, EMALS doesn't work at all and it's just being pushed because it benefits some senator's contractor buddy, like the M-16 in Vietnam or the Mk. 14 torpedo in WW2.>billionslol no
>>540799503“You know the catapult is quite important,” Trump told Time magazine in 2017 before recounting a conversation he said he had with an unnamed navy officer.“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system,’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’”Trump’s public remarks shows that he has retold that story, with variations, every year since 2017.
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>>540799412That decision makes no sense. I'm assuming the electromagnetic catapult would have been a tested platform with all the kinks worked out before it was ever planned to be added to a carrier, right? That would make sense, yeah? I could see a decision like this being made if it was a matter of time, but if they're trying to rush a carrier, why not build more than one at a time? Doesn't China push out upwards of 100 ships a year or something? When did this country become this useless at everything it does?
let’s say the steam catapults were better/more reliable. is it even possible to retrofit them to the new carriers?
>>540799503because it's just one of millions of fraud schemes in our military
>>540799620this is real btw, Trump just thinks "digital=bad"by the end of his term us navy will be running on coal lmao
>>540799412>tfw you will live to see amerilards build an aircraft carrier with A FUCKING RAMP
>>540799632its so protected that CENTCOM is literally pulling resources from INDOPACOM to keep it protected (one of them is called the USS Abraham Lincoln). brilliant protection strategy. someone better make sure china doesnt realize that boat is missing though
>>540799503Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA). Mackenzie is the US Representative for Allentown, PA, whom Trump has been campaigning for recently. Mackenzie has received donations from Olson Technologies (HQ Allentown, PA). Olson Technologies owns Homestead Valve Manufacturing Co (HQ Allentown, PA). Homestead Manufacturing makes the steam valves for steam catapults for USN aircraft carriers. Mackenzie has been vocal against EMALS.EMALS is made in San Diego, CA, by General Atomics, whose Representative is Scott Peters (D-CA), a vocal critic of Trump.Huntington Ingalls operations building nuclear powered aircraft carriers are based in Newport News, VA, whose representative is Bobby Scott (D-VA), a vocal critic of steam catapults and a vocal critic of Trump.It's grift and partisan politics all the way down, and it threatens USN readiness and the US ability to globally project soft and hard power.
>>540799981they already noticed and sent their own carrier to the now empty of us carriers area
>>540800061kek someone should warn taiwan
>>540799981>noo you are protecting it too hard noooo
>>540799503draws too much power, more than even the nuclear reactor on the ship can provide, it's augmented with flywheel alternators and seems to fail quite often
>>540799681I bet they are finding problems when the carrier is out at sea for long periods of time without maintenance. If you're out at sea and you only have one working catapult that's a pretty big problem.
>>540799412Why the fuck does this real estate media personality retard, who would not know which way to point a gun, be allowed to make crucial direct intervention decisions on something like a carrier launch system? Sgt Bonespurs should not be allowed to even decide cafeteria dessert on a ship. He literally should not be allowed to do this, what the fuck does he know about defense technology? Nothing. So what does whatever he say about it mean? It’s someone else’s thoughts repackaged.
>>540801391>“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system,’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’”
>>540800999this. extended sea deployment is a bitch and the Lincoln has set a record for it now. also i got the names mixed up in my previous post. the Washington has been pulled from INDOPACOM to relieve the Lincoln
>>540799681It makes no sense because Trump is a retard who actively sabotages your country.
>>540799412America is broke and can't upgrade or replace anything.Not to mention the rare Earth shortage they will never recover from.
>>540799632Chinese ships still sail through everyday.Trump is smart enough to know that Xi runs the world
>>540801628But he's owning the libs
>>540799503Better in some ways, worse in others
>>540800054>EMALS>>540799503catapult and hydraulic systems instead of the newer Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Weapons Elevators. “The Department of War shall restore both capacity and competition to the maritime industrial base as it expands our naval force structure,” Trump said in the memo, using the administration’s preferred name for the Pentagon. ”It will use proven, reliable and affordable technologies and ship designs, as well as award contracts that enable purchases from foreign suppliers in the near term while simultaneously incentivizing investment in America’s shipbuilding industrial base, consistent with other major equipment purchases such as icebreakers,” the president said. trumps a retard.>carrier designed for new system for elevators and catapults.>all ship use the old technology that ship was not designed for and built for that needs more water will be placed.kek
>>540799503Steam is cheaper, easier to repair, and doesn't require a new navy rate to maintain. Drumpalumpaduofh was onto something with his new battleship design. Costs more up front but saves tax dollars later. Also battleships in ww2 were commissioned for 10 years at best. Gross waste of money>t. Naveng occifer
>>540801705they payed my toll huh lol losersgiven that you are always lying im gonna say otherwise reflecively, i mean you lie so much about everything all the time i choose to disbeleive faggot
>>540799412Aura. Remember Top Gun? Those aircraft being spotted on the deck through rising steam? You don't get that with EM cats.
>>540799594doesn't matter you design a new ship, clearly these carrier where designed to use the space saving from EMALS and not with the though of steam and hydraulics in mind. your basically hot gluing shit something no designed for it.this the type of shit you do during war and emals parts are basically gone. you are not in war time and you should redesign the ships, you don't order a ship currently being built to go steam something it was not designed for. your basically wasting more money just jerry rigging it.
>>540802089Yes but repairs and parts cost more than steam. Better to do what russians are doing and improve smart mortars/munitions to be shot from a ship (saves shekels)
>>540802223your shit hole doesn't have an aircraft carrier lmao stfuyou fucking retards fail to realize that obviously they new "improved" system is fucking shit and good ol steam just fucking weeks. you fucking tds retards
>>540802089Also >have nuclear reactor.>makes steam> no we need some electromagnetic bullshit when we could use this for ballistics.I expected better from you mexis
>>540802159cope from a rope faggot.
>>540802637>MAOFAGGOT MELTY!!
>>540802553>have nuclear reactor>produces energy >no don't use electric system, use steam and more water instead.
>>540799503It's an overengineered system designed to make the MIC richer, not to actually fight a war.
>I voted for thatNo; you actually voted for this...
