mo4ch:>‘We’re going to use steam’: Trump declares downgrade to US carrier launch systems | Mo4ch News
During his Memorial Day address to some 1,000 sailors and Marines on board the USS Wasp, US President Donald Trump took the opportunity to, once again, push for steam-powered catapults on America’s aircraft carriers.“We’re spending all that money on electric and nobody knows what it’s going to be like in bad conditions," Trump said, as he polled the sailors and Marines, whom he dubbed a “tough bunch of people” and “daring and mighty warriors in the Pacific.”“So I think I’m going to put an order – when we build a new aircraft carrier, we’re going to use steam.”Trump has long-favored the traditional steam-powered catapults over newer electromagnetic systems.“Steam’s only worked for about 65 years perfectly. And I won’t tell you this because it’s before my time by a little bit, but they have a $900 million cost overrun on this crazy electric catapult,” he added, at the end of the president’s four-day state visit to Japan. “They want to show – next, next, next. And we all want innova…