OMG, he'll destroy this too!
Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
The directive issued Thursday comes after years of President Donald Trump railing against the new, magnetically powered catapult system that shoots fighter jets off the deck of the carriers. Trump has long said he prefers the older tech. Read more.
Why this matters:
The move would likely cost billions of dollars. It would revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain. It also comes at a time when the U.S. military is trying to find funding from Congress for all its desired equipment and as the Navy is struggling to fill its ships with enough sailors.
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