Trump calls for ditching new launch system aboard aircraft carriers

Published May 11, 2017 9:11am ET



President Trump has expressed his displeasure with a new system for launching planes from the next generation of Navy aircraft carriers, and said in an interview that he’s ordered the Navy to scuttle the high-tech electromagnetic system in favor of an old-fashioned steam catapult.

“[You’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good,” Trump recounted telling the Navy.

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