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Originally Posted by Wells5
The US Government spent untold millions developing a new type catapult for aircraft carriers- a long linear induction motor. The steam catapult was perfectly satisfactory. That's what government research dollars go into.
But wait, Trump just nixed the new catapult.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...rump-says.html |
Except he didn't. Trump shot off his mouth about something he knew jack about - as per usual - and the people getting the job done nodded sagely and ignored him, because he's a bit of an idiot and they have work to do. Your story is from 2019, and both CVN-78 and CVN-79 are being built with electromagnetic catapults.
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