{"id":18765,"date":"2017-09-29T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/29\/trump-again-bashes-emals-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:55:16","slug":"trump-again-bashes-emals-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/09\/29\/trump-again-bashes-emals-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump again bashes EMALS technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has again dissed the Navy\u2019s new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, known as EMALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time, his comments came as he discussed wasteful military spending, the Washington Post reported Sept. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s like when you get a new car and you have to be a computer genius to fix your seat,\u201d Trump reportedly said. \u201cThe seat\u2019s moving all over the place, it\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second time he\u2019s spoken out against the Navy\u2019s new catapult technology, installed on the aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s initial criticism of the system came in a May 8 interview with TIME, in which he recounted a conversation with an unnamed sailor about the development issues the Navy experienced with EMALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"apester-media\" data-media-id=\"59ce72ed933e3000017a7b64\" height=\"408\"><\/div><script async src=\"\/\/static.apester.com\/js\/sdk\/v2.0\/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know the catapult is quite important,\u201d said Trump in the Time interview. \u201cSo I said what is this? Sir, this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we\u2019re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology]. I said, \u2018You don\u2019t use steam anymore for catapult?\u2019 \u2018No sir.\u2019 I said, \u2018Ah, how is it working?\u2019 \u2018Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn\u2019t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam\u2019s going all over the place, there\u2019s planes thrown in the air.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it\u2019s very complicated. You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said \u2014 and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be \u2014 \u2018Sir, we\u2019re staying with digital.\u2019 I said no you\u2019re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it\u2019s no good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just days later, then-acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley denied that Trump had been officially briefed on the ship and its capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has visited the Ford twice this year and never mentioned EMALS, instead, touting the ship as being \u201cthe newest, largest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the history of this world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/05\/11\/navy-should-return-to-goddamned-steam-on-carrier-trump-says\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-ohio-preview.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy should return to &#8216;goddamned steam&#8217; on carrier, Trump says<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Trump says the Navy should abandon longstanding plans for electro-magnetic catapults for carrier aviation and return to the traditional steam-powered launch and recovery system.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 28, the Navy put the Ford to sea and tested both the EMALS and its counterpart system for assisting aircraft landings \u2014 the Advanced Arresting Gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system performed as advertised, though officials admit it isn\u2019t yet fully operational and won\u2019t be until 2019, when a software upgrade will fix the remaining catapult issues that currently restrict some launches.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2017\/08\/03\/the-carrier-fords-first-flight-ops\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IL72KN675NC5NJFQPQELNW33CY.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The carrier Ford&#8217;s first flight ops<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Pilot of historic first says it &quot;felt different.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His comments came as he discussed wasteful military spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["your-military","news"],"primary_category":"your-military"}}},"categories":[101,12,26,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-18765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"K6777FE5J5B2FOQPFXTYXWJN64","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/09\/29\/trump-again-bashes-emals-technology\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump again bashes EMALS technology - Navy Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"His comments came as he discussed wasteful military spending.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump again bashes EMALS technology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"His comments came as he discussed wasteful military spending.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/09\/29\/trump-again-bashes-emals-technology\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Navy Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-29T15:43:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T18:55:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark D. 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