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I can only imagine he really cares about this because he's invested in the company that makes the steam-powered systems.
What we'll probably hear from him next is that he prefers steam gauges over glass cockpits and that all aircraft, civilian or military, must be retrofitted with the former. And biplanes, the Pentagon must start buying and using them. Everybody knows (except for Communists) that two wings are better than one.
Maybe farmers should start watering plants with brawndo? After all, "It has electrolytes, what plants crave!"
Total texhnically ignorant foool
And even with this, the US Navy isn't going back in time anywhere as far or as fast as the US Department Of Health which has already reached the 18th century under a leadership that denies that vaccines work.
Meanwhile in China where science and innovation are at the forefront:
https://nextgendefense.com/chinese-carrier-electromagnetic-catapult/
Join me in some wild speculation about this aircraft carrier which is already behind schedule:
The ship, named for Messman Second Class Doris Miller, is the first aircraft carrier named for both an enlisted sailor and an African American.[9] The ship will be the second to honor Miller, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor; the first ship was USS Miller (FF-1091).[10] It is currently the only Gerald R. Ford-class carrier to be named after a person who was not a former president.
The president's changes will slow things down. Now why would he want to slow that aircraft carrier down?
“The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,” Phelan said...
“The U.S. Navy will lead the design, along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said.
This idiot thinks he is an expert on everything. More people need to tell the baby NO.
Grown ups are talking sweety...
To be fair a third of anything said to him is sycophantic praise, so why wouldnt he think he's a genius?
I'm pretty sure it's 100% at this point. I'm starting to think he's not even a liar at all and he is just insanely delusional from all the yes men
I can only imagine the hard facepalming going on in the Navy right now.
How many more before this government collapses, as it should? It's truly an emperor-no-clothes situation.
Depends on what else Pootin and Nyetenyahoo want destroyed in the US govt by their kompromat chaos agent.
Good, less American fighters being able to be launched means a safer world
And they can use clean coal to generate the steam!
They going to battle cylons next?
Use the electromagnetic launcher just also add a tube that shoots out a stream of hot steam as it launches a plane so his dumb ass can brag about how he built a steam launcher.
After this and reviving the idea of battleships (which will make them again fat targets for kamikaze rubber boats), betcha the bastard will want fucking outsized wonder weapons.
This motherfucker has no clue how magnets work.
This motherfucker has no clue ~~how magnets work.~~
The same dumb motherfucker who wanted to nuke a hurricane and also extended a hurricane path with a Sharpe because NOAA wouldn't entertain his valuable input on hurricane path.....of course a guy like that is vexed by magnets
I'm vaguely recalling a press conference where Trump suggested that magnets can be deactivated by putting it water.
Is anyone else remembering this?
I remember him not knowing what they are, so one of those Trumps must be lying!
Stable genius. We should require the automobile manufacturers to revert back to steam power too. Think of it!
Ooooo what about steam powered AI data centers? Would that even be possible? What about my PC? Could I run Steam on steam?
“Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.”
Russia sabotaging the US's military again. It's all hegseth does but trump is such a well trained stooge at this point that advancing russia's agenda is like second nature to him.
What's wrong with rubber bands?
Next: why do we even need the planes; we can directly catapult stones on the enemy! Wonder why nobody ever thought about it
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