Politics Predictably nutso Time interview with Trump

http://time.com/4775040/donald-trump-time-interview-being-president/

Sample:

On the future USS Ford-class carriers
You know the catapult is quite important. So I said what is this? Sir, this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we’re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology]. 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."

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. 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.

 

Yeah, Time magazine needs to be put out to pasture.

 

You mean "Time lol"

Stick to your brand, man.

 

By the way, how the heck do digits push a plane off a carrier?

 

Ummm, this doesn't sound right!

Steam is simple, not complex. It can provide brute force immediately and through the short distance involved.
Digital? A progressive magnetic field carriage is still an analog device, although it may be computer controlled, No doubt the steam driven carriage is also.

Steam was not always used, The Bonhomie Richard was commissioned with Hydraulic catapults. While hydraulics can also provide brute force immediately, someone over looked the fact
that hydraulic fluid under high pressure and high velocity produces much heat, vaporizing heat, where a little oxygen is all that is needed for catastrophe.

Oh well, back to steam. It is available, it drives the screws on the ship, and generates the electrical power. Not much sense in a system that generates steam to generated electricity to generate an intensely powerful magnetic field to create linear motion at high power but relative low velocity. Use the steam to do the later and skip the conversions. The progressive magnetic field can produce very high velocity, but that requires acceleration distance. That magnetic field can't be a welcome factor for any thing near by.


It is interesting, they throw the thing out there about aircraft 50 years down the road as the justification for the Rail Gun launcher now? No other info provided.
Bull.

"there’s a reason why the latest and greatest aircraft carriers will use EMALS, and not steam catapults. It works just fine for a lot of the aircraft on ships now, but for the drones that will be flying in the skies more than 50 years from now, when the Ford-class is still expected to be in service, a new solution is needed."

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/trump-may-have-derailed-a-crucial-part-of-americas-futu-1795121555

I don't know enough right now to firmly judge, but my intuition wants to thank the President for good instincts, good call.

 

Maybe they are considering electro magnetic as digital based off the technology behind it or something.

 

You know what? Sailing ships never had any problems with catapults and they don't even need fuel!
Also: zeppelins! Much less likely to crash, much cheaper than planes. Trump's JUST GETTING STARTED!

I absolutely trust Donald to know what's best for the military more than the actual military. After all, he said he knows more than the generals. Also he invented the phrase "priming the pump":



He's a regular polymath!

 

And your back ground as the expert is?

 

Says the person who shares all of their wisdom via other peoples tweets?