Trump finally orders Navy to return to older steam catapults in obsession that could cost billions

Trump's obsession with the new technology goes back to at least 2017

The design change is expected to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process.  The president directed the service to have Ford-class aircra

President Donald Trump is ordering the US Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers, according to a new directive issued.

United States President Donald Trump has allowed the Navy to build ships overseas and ordered it to abandon a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead return to using steam catapults, the White House said on Thursday (Aug 13).Trump signed a national security memorandum directing

Trump orders Navy to abandon carrier launch system, return to steam catapults  Reuters