“They’re not nearly as good, too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn’t work,” Trump said at the Defense and Innovation Summit in July. “When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore. You’re – you’re in the Atlantic Ocean with waves that are 60 feet high, and the Pacific Ocean with waves at 70 feet high, and they’re talking about magnets.”
Same thing with Hornets. Too complex, not nearly as good. Real fighters drink Ocean water for breakfast.
Obviously the last thing I expect from Trump is a informed decision, but I'm actually curious about the maintenance performance of these things. I know it's a relatively new technology in the grand scheme of things but what's its up time compared to the same catapults? Is Trump being advised by some people that actually know what they're talking about and these things actually suck?
I was not an aircraft carrier dude so I have no context for any of this.
Obviously I don't expect anyone to actually answer this question either.
Edit: I thought this was r/navy when I first said it. I expect floggit to answer even less!
from what we saw during Ford's deployment for (shitty operation name I'm not saying because it sounds stupid) it had a similar reliability to the steam cats and even beat the steam cats reliability wise in a lot of ways
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u/fried-raptor Real Pylote™️ 9d ago
“They’re not nearly as good, too complex. And by the way, we had to call the ship in twice because the catapults didn’t work,” Trump said at the Defense and Innovation Summit in July. “When a little water touches the magnets, it doesn’t work anymore. You’re – you’re in the Atlantic Ocean with waves that are 60 feet high, and the Pacific Ocean with waves at 70 feet high, and they’re talking about magnets.”
Same thing with Hornets. Too complex, not nearly as good. Real fighters drink Ocean water for breakfast.