Trump has suggested steam catapults every year since 2017, saying digital systems are too ‘complicated’
After nearly a decade of loudly complaining about the fact that modern US aircraft carriers use electromagnetic systems to launch fighter jets instead of steam-powered catapults, Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to redesign a new aircraft carrier to replace the modern system with the old-fashioned catapults he prefers.
Trump signed a national security memorandum on Thursday directing the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, to make the change he has had his heart set on since at least 2017, when he first described his idea to Time magazine.
The memorandum gives the Pentagon leaders 60 days to come up with “a plan on the required measures to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Weapons Elevators with steam and hydraulic systems for the construction of” the USS Doris Miller, a Ford-class aircraft carrier, which is already two years behind schedule.
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This idiot thinks he is an expert on everything. More people need to tell the baby NO.
Grown ups are talking sweety…
To be fair a third of anything said to him is sycophantic praise, so why wouldnt he think he’s a genius?
I’m pretty sure it’s 100% at this point. I’m starting to think he’s not even a liar at all and he is just insanely delusional from all the yes men
Total texhnically ignorant foool
And they can use clean coal to generate the steam!
They going to battle cylons next?
After this and reviving the idea of battleships (which will make them again fat targets for kamikaze rubber boats), betcha the bastard will want fucking outsized wonder weapons.
Use the electromagnetic launcher just also add a tube that shoots out a stream of hot steam as it launches a plane so his dumb ass can brag about how he built a steam launcher.
I mean, China was bragging they made a bus a year ago. They called it a trackless train or some shit.
The change there was that it could use both tracks and roads, allowing it more transit flexibility
The innovation wasn’t as much technical as it was logistical
Y’know it’s usually the other way around, ya know folks reinventing the train but shittier and calling it a car or bus. Weirdly refreshing. Also trackless trains have existed since the 1800s with steam tractors, there was a nuclear powered equivalent in the 50s, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of something similar being used in Iraq and Syria back in the 30s where they just hooked up multiple trailers to a pair of modified trucks to move goods to places without rail.
Stable genius. We should require the automobile manufacturers to revert back to steam power too. Think of it!
Ooooo what about steam powered AI data centers? Would that even be possible? What about my PC? Could I run Steam on steam?
This motherfucker has no clue how magnets work.
The same dumb motherfucker who wanted to nuke a hurricane and also extended a hurricane path with a Sharpe because NOAA wouldn’t entertain his valuable input on hurricane path…of course a guy like that is vexed by magnets
“Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
What’s wrong with rubber bands?
Next: why do we even need the planes; we can directly catapult stones on the enemy! Wonder why nobody ever thought about it
Just wait until he finds out about trebuchets.
Sharp sticks were part of the world’s arsenal for thousands of not millions of years!
Not only part of the arsenal. In a lot of times and places throughout history, they’ve been your best option against most things (though generally this is only when you have the sufficient manpower to make them work; for 1v1 matchups, swords are usually better)
This moron is confounded by magnets and windmills. He is one of the dumbest (did you know there’s a ‘b’ in dumb? Most people don’t you know) people in American history.
So they’re using electric motors and he wants steam engines?
May as well install a cope slope instead, I’m sure he’ll understand how that works.
