Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets

and if they mess up your lawn just call the four seasons

Water and steam are the same thing, so the last pool company can do it.

That he's never met before and never worked with

his friends

You must be the type that truly believes the stripper loves you

"Friends? Have you met this guy?"

But her EMALS

(sorry, I actually enjoyed your contribution though)

You'd think that an electric system should allow for relatively easy isolation – isolating electric circuits from each other with breakers is hardly new technology. Is this lack of isolation a design flaw of EMALS or is there an actual physical reason why it couldn't be designed with independently powerable tracks?

US military too dumb to isolate a track electrically, checks out

It's so simple to solve though, just have the track squirt up a bit of fog machine smoke each time it runs and tell him it's steam powered again. What is he going to do, go check? Just lie, that's our culture now, just lie about it.

No they don't, there's still 4 units one per launcher. Most of problems you mention seems to come from energy storage system. Energy is stored in the flywheels, which requires annoying converter, so chinese variant uses giant set of supercapacitors instead which is just a bit heavier and has less problems with communications interference. Also can be split in many parts and fit in any space you have. Mostly benefit of being designed later. Zero surprises if americans figure it's better but institutional inertia keeps them using the old one

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

I'm vaguely recalling a press conference where Trump suggested that magnets can be deactivated by putting it water.

Is anyone else remembering this?

Just wait until he finds out about trebuchets.

To be fair a third of anything said to him is sycophantic praise, so why wouldnt he think he's a genius?

Tell him No? Is that what you think the primary issue is, here? That his governing style needs more restraint?

"Grown ups are talking sweety..."

I mean, China was bragging they made a bus a year ago. They called it a trackless train or some shit.

This is a brilliant work-around. It'll save a ton of R&D money and won't take nearly the time and $ that a full retrofit would, all while pacifying the Orange Diaper Baby until the next dumbass idea comes along. How would you like a no-bid contract for the job?

Yes, after spending outrageous amounts to develop EMALS (what's basically a railgun but for launching airplanes) we can now spend even more to rip that out and design a steam system for those ships....

He is a dumbass micromanager. The president shouldn't be involved at this level of technology development period.

Depends on what else Pootin and Nyetenyahoo want destroyed in the US govt by their kompromat chaos agent.

I can't wait until trump orders the aircraft carrier to be made capable of dive-bombing.

You'd have to be a real Alfred Einstein to come up with that.

That's probably all there is to it.

I think it's more like "bring back whatever I watched on film between 1955-1990 as that's the last time the world felt familiar". Steam catapults from Top Gun, TriStar jet because triples are best, PanAm airlines because the stewardesses had miniskirts and cleavage. Fuck it, someone call Howard Hughes while we're at it

Maybe farmers should start watering plants with brawndo? After all, "It has electrolytes, what plants crave!"

It's all fun and games until the itch.io catapults start taking over.

I wonder if it's physically possible to build a supersonic biplane...

There really were steam-powered aircraft, weirdly enough. Maybe trump thinks they never got a fair shake.

His cabinet wouldn't have their cushy jobs if it wasn't for that dotard.

They're not gonna kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.

Because it’s electric?

No, because it has magnets.

Trump is notoriously afraid of magnets. It upsets him that they would put a magnet on something that's supposed to float on the sea, and he worries about them sinking with the magnets still on them. I read through one of his rants on the topic, verbatim. The guy is stupid. Very stupid indeed. And senile.

The man really does not understand that electricity is the purest and highest form of energy there is.

Ooooo what about steam powered AI data centers? Would that even be possible? What about my PC? Could I run Steam on steam?

These sound a little more like "friend's stoner older brother that lives in his buddy's garage" ideas to me!

Well his latest scheme appears to be to give Greenland a bunch of expensive oil drilling equipment. He genuinely seems to believe that if they just start drilling for oil no one's going to stop them.

I've met flat earthers with better critical thinking skills than this idiot.

And he will call them Trumpwaffe 1 through 3. None of them will have any significant impact apart from the impact on logistics and the defense industry

Put the ballista back in icbm!

It's been over 100 years since the last wooden battalion was sunk! That obviously means they are superior than metal ships

at least he is also screwing Americans

It's almost as if he's really a tool of Putin and the Saudis and doesn't give two fucks about America.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot about Israel.

Bro most of America lives paycheck to paycheck under an inhumane capitalistic system designed to make us desperate, afraid, and without a sense of community. We are dependent upon employment to get whatever overpriced and impersonal healthcare we are allowed by our employer-provided insurance. We have no savings. We are guaranteed no time off, and we can be fired in most places at any time for any reason. Our educational infrastructure has been systematically degraded over the past few decades, as have all our consumer protections and what few tools we’ve ever had to fight these oppressive conditions. Our kids get sent to war because joining the military is about the only method the poor and undereducated have of getting a chance of going to college or securing a mortgage. The people fucking you and the rest of the world aren’t Americans, they’re our oligarchs.

Why catapults, why not trebuchets?

I'm not sure the guy has ever moved uphill.

No they don't use steam that's the point, Quasimodo wants to go back to steam for some bizarreason probably because he thinks magnets don't work when they get wet.

Steam launchers put significantly more stress on the aircraft, which means they have to be reinforced to support the poorly controlled initial spike in force.

The steam is already being used to create the electricity.... Leave that shit to engineers.

They don't actually. Steam catapult is operated with completely separate steam supply, and major design goal of ford class was to remove it so even if pedo in chief wanted, retrofit is physically impossible. That separate steam supply needs extra freshwater because it's not condensed and recovered. EMALS is much milder on plane and pilot because it's a big linear motor that gives constant acceleration instead of spike then decreasing like with steam. Efficiency of steam catapult is also dogshit compared to turbine + energy storage system

....maybe steam catapults are even less efficient? Maybe they can get better accuracy with less equipment using wires instead of a massive plumbing system? Maybe it would be way more maintenance, thus negating other efficiencies? I'm sure there are a massive amount of factors. Don't you think they need to generate electricity, anyway? Maybe adding on the launch power is negligible.