• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At a guess, he just remembers being mad at the Navy about something about magnets, but made up the why.

    I guess nobody told him that the ship that was supposedly having those issues with EMALS is not only built but on deployment now

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      1 year ago

      I think youre correct, I found this from memorial day 2019:

      Trump, who has been critical of the Ford-class carriers’ new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) system, said he prefers the steam-powered catapults found on the older Nimitz-class CVNs. He again called on the Navy to revert back to the old technology while speaking to naval forces in Japan over the Memorial Day weekend.

      Thanks for trying to figure out what the kook was talking about lol, I know hes nuts but he usually has SOMETHING in mind when hes rambling, I was curious what that was