«Breaking News» Trump again harps on his pet peeve about aircraft carrier catapults

President Donald Trump has again harped on the Navy's switch to electromagnetic catapults on aircraft carriers instead of steam.

Trump used a Thanksgiving Day call with a naval officer serving overseas to gripe about the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, which is replacing steam-driven catapults on Ford-class carriers.

The catapults are used to help propel aircraft off of the deck of the carrier during take-off, helping to compensate for the limited length of the flight deck. 

'Would you go with steam or would you go with electromagnetic? Steam is very reliable. Electromagnetic – unfortunately you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly,' Trump said to the officer, who is apparently serving on a carrier. 

Trump speaks via video teleconference with troops from Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. He used the conversation as a chance to harp on his pet peeve about an aircraft carrier upgrade project

The naval officer responded: 'Yes sir. You sort of have to be Albert Einstein to run the nuclear power plant that we have here as well, but we're doing that very well.' 

'Sir, Mr President, I would go electromagnetic,' the officer continued. 'We do pay a heavy cost for transiting the steam around the ship.'

Trump thanked the officer for his candid reply, adding 'I'm actually happy about that answer, because at least they're doing what they're doing. That's actually a very good answer.'

It is not the first time that Trump has seemed to obsess over the Navy's plans to upgrade to EMALS.

In May of 2017, Trump blindsided Navy officials by declaring in an interview with Time magazine that he was ordering the carrier fleet to stick with 'godd**ned steam'. 

'The digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it's no good,' Trump said, apparently referring to the EMALS.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet jet flies over the USS Gerald R. Ford as the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier tests its EMALS magnetic launching system, which replaces the steam catapult, and new AAG arrested landing system in the Atlantic Ocean July 28, 2017

Nevertheless, plans for EMALS, which is at the center of a multi-billion dollar carrier project, went forward, with the first tests in July of 2017 aboard the USS Gerald Ford.

In September 2017, Trump again blasted the new system as too complex, using a colorful metaphor.

'It's like when you get a new car and you have to be a computer genius to fix your seat,' Trump told the Washington Post. 'The seat's moving all over the place, it's unbelievable.'

On Thursday, Trump visited a Coast Guard station near his Mar-a-lago property in Florida, delivering sub sandwiches for the Thanksgiving holiday.

He also spend part of the morning making phone calls to troops serving overseas. 

HOW THE EMALS CATAPULT WORKS 

The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System uses a linear motor drive instead of the conventional steam piston drive.

EMALS has been in development for the Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

It's meant to launch aircrafts from a carrier using the catapult method.

But rather than using a conventional steam piston drive, it uses a linear motor drive instead. 

This accelerates the aircraft more smoothly and puts less stress on the airframes.

It also weighs and costs significantly less and requires little maintenance.

It's designed for to be flexible in launching both light and heavy aircrafts. 

The UK, China and India have also show interest in or began developing systems that use EMALS. 

 

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