Right after China accomplished the world’s first electromagnetic catapult launch of a 5th-gen fighter jet from an aircraft carrier.
swapping out these features, even just for future ships in the class, would involve an extremely costly and time-consuming redesign that would further delay new carriers entering service.
Do it
God so many of those early nimitz class carriers are going to be sailing for so much longer now. Soon theyll be as old as our senators.
Trump tripping over his dick into scrapping the F-35 would be hilarious.
We need to tell him the planes don’t know it they’re a fighter jet or an attack helicopter because woke engineers are trying to confuse children. What’s next, a tank that thinks it’s a battle ship?!!
They should also switch from nuclear and gasoline back to coal and sails.
Its stealthy /s
noo trump install steam trebuchets instead china has none of those
China is gonna be launching mobile suits from spaceships while America has two guys pushing a prop plane down a long raft as fast as they can
US speedrunning the Imperium of Man, China getting to do the Tau path of railguns and mecha and not being awful - shit, with that Maccabi fiasco perhaps the UK really are going to have to try and be the Orks again…
I can’t believe CHYNA is so good at stealing tech that they stole technology that america didn’t even have yet.
See, I knew Trump was the harm reduction candidate
Stealing that USA shooting themselves image, btw
I think it could come in handy
i thought this was a /c/fakenews post for a sec and got mad
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why? Are steam catapults considered “based” or something?
My speculation is that Trump half-remembered hearing about the USN’s electromagnetic catapult program going over budget (because everything goes over budget) and it became a thing he started saying.
They look cool. They go psshh whoosh and you remember them from movies.
There is a problem with electric design in the ships. Everything is on the same circuit, and the high electricity use from the catapults shut the ship down.
Water destroys magnets apparently.
lmao wtf are they doing? I never thought living in the midst of a collapsing empire would be this hilarious
Why would this need to be an EO. I assume he heard the military was doing something new and it hurt his feelings.
Critical support to conrade trump for just erasing all the empire’s resources to make stuff look cool and lose wars
Aircraft launching trebuchets when?
