Trump needs to understand what he does not know & stay out of this. Most Presidents would leave it to the experts... #SaturdayMorning
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2/"President Trump this week renewed his questioning of the military’s new system for launching aircraft at sea, underscoring his skepticism about a technology the Navy has put at the center of its future aircraft carrier fleet. In a call to service members on Thursday marking
3/"the Thanksgiving holiday, Trump asked the commander of the USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier deployed in the Pacific, whether he supported using electromagnetics rather than the traditional steam system to catapult aircraft off carrier decks and land them
4/"safely back on board. “Steam is very reliable, and the electromagnetic — I mean, unfortunately, you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it properly,” Trump said. “What would you do?” Trump has repeatedly criticized General Atomics’ Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
5/" (EMALS), installed on the Navy’s newest carrier and slated to be used on other new ships. The debut of that system, the culmination of years of testing and development, has been plagued by delays and technical problems. Capt. Pat Hannifin, articulating the Navy’s view,
6/"responded by telling Trump that EMALS would lessen the burden that steam-powered systems exact on carriers and was within sailors’ power to operate successfully. “You sort of have to be Albert Einstein to run the nuclear power plants that we have here as well, but we’re
7/"doing that very well,” Hannifin said. The exchange was the latest in a series of comments that Trump has made challenging Pentagon procurement decisions, illustrating his confidence that he may know more than his military leaders. The Navy did not have an immediate response.."
