The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Mister Agenda]

Biden put about 195 billion towards Ukraine, and around 50 billion of that stayed here, paying factories to make the equipment and weapons.

[The Grand Nudger]

With respect to equipment transfers….we gave them gear that was slated to be destroyed, valued it at a price lower than the cost we were paying to have it destroyed..then loaned or gave them the funds to cover that discounted to us amount as part of long term reciprocal agreements.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Biden put about 195 billion towards Ukraine, and around 50 billion of that stayed here, paying factories to make the equipment and weapons.

The actual weaponry came in at significantly less than that $195 billion figure, much closer to $75 billion.

Boru

[Angrboda]

President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. 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 directive issued Thursday.

The new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.

The memo directs the Pentagon and the Navy to present Trump with plans to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, within two months. It also says the Ford-class carrier’s electromagnetic weapons elevators should be replaced.

The move comes after years of Trump railing against the new, magnetically powered catapult system that shoots fighter jets off the deck of the carriers. It also comes at a time when the U.S. military is trying to find funding from Congress for all its desired equipment and as the Navy is struggling to fill its ships with enough sailors.

Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers

[Mister Agenda]

He is SO weird!

[AFTT47]

That has got to be the most insane thing I've ever heard. It's beyond ridiculous. The catapult isn't an add-on. It's a critical part of the ship and the vessel is designed around it. Interior spaces are different. The way the reactor interfaces with the ship's infrastructure is different. The steam catapult is much more maintenance-intensive, requiring a bigger crew. There would be a downgrade in the number of aircraft operations the ship can perform at once.

The only thing the orange insane man could accomplish is cancel the orders on the remaining ships or delay start of construction. Converting them is out of the question. It would require a complete redesign which would probably take years.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Next month: muskets and bayonets.

Boru