Donald Trump's Problem With the Navy's Electromagnetic Airplane Catapult, Explained
USS Ford's shaky new aircraft catapult has attracted the ire of the Commander-in-Chief.
By Kyle Mizokami
May 11, 2017
President Donald Trump has waded into the swampy world of defense systems again. Months after threatening to cancel the F-35 program over escalating costs (and taking credit for cost reductions already scheduled to take place) the President told Time magazine he ordered the Navy to ditch the USS Gerald R. Ford's new Electomagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS.
In the President's own words:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26478/donald-trump-emals-steam-catapult-aircraft-carrier/
