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WOW. Just wow. I really should run my thread les through spellcheck.
I guess it isn't tippy-top enough.
What the is this man saying? Does he even know?????Navy officials were “blindsided” on Thursday, a spokesman told me, by President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he has convinced the Navy to abandon a long-planned digital launching system in favor of steam on its newest aircraft carrier.
In a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, Trump described his disgust with the catapult system known as Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System, nicknamed EMALS, aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford. (Time has published only excerpts from the interview, not a full transcript.) The president described wanting to scrap EMALS, a key technological upgrade at the center of the multibillion-dollar carrier project, and return to steam.
I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”
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 going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”
Bomb-magnets have used steam launchers since the 40's. The EMALS is the next step that uses an electromagnetic rail, that has some decided advantages over steam.
The steam-powered catapult systems that are being replaced have been used to launch airplanes from U.S. carriers for some six decades now. Not only are steam systems harder to maintain than electrical ones; they have a lower upper-limit during combat—meaning electrical systems can launch more aircraft in a shorter amount of time. Electrical systems can also better handle smaller aircrafts and drones compared with steam. Steam systems also put more stress on airframes, and make them more prone to corrosion. Not only that, but carriers themselves are exceedingly vulnerable to attack—meaning outfitting them with the modern defense systems is a priority.
WOW. Just wow. I really should run my thread les through spellcheck.
He's probably trying to save money. Duh. Weren't you complaining about lead bullets and their effect on the enviroment? Are you convinced EMALS is just fine and dandy? What if the carrier gets hit with an electromagnetic weapon? No more digital nothing. Are you privy to information about our military capablilities that our POTUS isn't? What are you saying? Do you even know?
then the airplanes won't work
Explain how this electromagnetic weapon would work.
And Whats it's range, etc...
He saw it on Batman
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/12...ste-state.html
Hawaiin dem senator agrees emps are a major issue for her state.
But the steam catapult will be fine.
Don't waste your timethese people clearly don't want to be informed and are comfortable with burying their heads in the sand to save face.
Trump is embarrassing. Period. He's not a criminal, he didn't plot with the Russians to beat Hillary, but he and his tweets are a constant embarrassment. Just shut the up, get the off twitter, and let smarter people than you run the country.
he lacks the humility for anything like that
www.not-going-to-happen.com #enormous-ego
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