Trump wants 'goddamned steam catapults on new aircraft carriers
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/333040-trum...-carriers#
President Trump said he has told the Navy to return to decades-old steam-powered catapult technology to launch aircraft from the new Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, rather than use a new digital launch system.
Trump’s comments came during an interview with Time magazine, released in excerpts Thursday, where he bashed the new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and said the Navy would instead be “going to goddamned steam.”
“I said, ‘You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?’ ‘No sir.’ I said, ‘Ah, how is it working?’ ‘Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air,’” Trump said in the interview.
“It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.
Well no, you just have to be smart enough to know what you don't know and sit down with someone who knows better than you.
And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be—‘ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’
And when the time comes, as it surely will, Trump will say to the cardiovascular surgeon, "stents, lasers? What's up with that? What happened to sawing through the breast bone and harvesting veins from the legs? That's what I'm going with!"
So, if I'm reading this correctly, basically because Trump doesn't understand how the new digital tech works or how it's better than the decades old steam we now use we're not going with newer and what sounds like much better technology.
This just adds to my belief that the man is to stupid and mentally incompetent to be president.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/..._what.html
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/333040-trum...-carriers#
President Trump said he has told the Navy to return to decades-old steam-powered catapult technology to launch aircraft from the new Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, rather than use a new digital launch system.
Trump’s comments came during an interview with Time magazine, released in excerpts Thursday, where he bashed the new Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and said the Navy would instead be “going to goddamned steam.”
“I said, ‘You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?’ ‘No sir.’ I said, ‘Ah, how is it working?’ ‘Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air,’” Trump said in the interview.
“It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.
Well no, you just have to be smart enough to know what you don't know and sit down with someone who knows better than you.
And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be—‘ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’
And when the time comes, as it surely will, Trump will say to the cardiovascular surgeon, "stents, lasers? What's up with that? What happened to sawing through the breast bone and harvesting veins from the legs? That's what I'm going with!"
So, if I'm reading this correctly, basically because Trump doesn't understand how the new digital tech works or how it's better than the decades old steam we now use we're not going with newer and what sounds like much better technology.
This just adds to my belief that the man is to stupid and mentally incompetent to be president.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/..._what.html
