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Sounds like a GREAT PLAN considering the FAILURE RATES of the "new" systems!!Squatchman » Today, 6:21 am » wrote: ↑ Trump ordered that the Navy go back to using the old steam powered catapult technology on aircraft carriers instead of the more efficient newer electromagnetic system that's being used today.
It will only cost taxpayers billions to go back to using steam powered catapults but trump is the expert.
Dementia is a hard mistress as trump has demonstrated once again.
What's next? Trebuchets for knocking down walls? Maybe a moat around the Whitehouse?
Electromagnetic catapults, known as the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), have faced notable technical, reliability, and political hurdles. Chief among these are high early failure rates, falling well short of target cycles between operational failures, heavy reliance on specialized technical support, and recent high-level directives to halt their use on future ships.
Core Reliability and Technical Problems
- Low Mean Cycles Between Failure (MCBF): EMALS was originally designed to achieve thousands of launches between critical failures. Early testing and deployment data showed it breaking down far more frequently—often after only 400 to 600 cycles—adversely impacting flight operations and sortie rates.
- Complex Power Integration: The system requires massive bursts of electrical energy from onboard turbine generators and kinetic energy storage flywheels. Managing these massive power spikes has led to localized electrical faults and multi-day system downtime during early operations.
- Reliance on Outside Support: Unlike legacy steam systems that shipboard crews could completely service independently, EMALS heavily depends on specialized, off-ship contractor and technical support to troubleshoot complex software and hardware glitches during deployments.
Want to try again in telling everyone HOW **** STUPID YOU ARE??
Go back to sucking that BAG OF DICKS I gave you yesterday!! Or did you finish it up already??
Liberals are spoiled children, miserable, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic & useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats ~O'Rourke
The Democratic Party seems intransigent on their position of keeping the party ‘woke,’ detached, exclusionary, and totally insane.
The Democratic Party seems intransigent on their position of keeping the party ‘woke,’ detached, exclusionary, and totally insane.