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The president wants the Navy to do away with the more advanced aircraft-launching electromagnetic catapults found in its newest Ford-class supercarriers, in favor of the legacy steam systems found in earlier Nimitz-class ships. And truth be told, there’s actually a lot more to this debate than it seems at first glance.
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Citations:
everycrsreport.com/files/20101223_RS20643_0ea66592b46783e446ca7ef4c7c2e62f7b7b3ba7.pdf (appears twice, rId17 & rId20)
theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/trump-wants-steam-power-navy/688323
https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/35519
murphysys.com/dcs/P-816.pdf
usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1954/october/catapults-come-age
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19960000737/downloads/19960000737.pdf
studylib.net/doc/25622089/steamcatapultinfousnlsoreferencemanual1999
gao.gov/assets/gao-15-22.pdf
usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1998/september/surge-97-demonstrating-carriers-firepower-potential
whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/rebuilding-the-united-states-navy-and-americas-shipbuilding-industrial-base
twz.com/sea/why-the-ford-class-carriers-island-superstructure-is-located-so-far-back
news.usni.org/2026/05/08/future-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-delayed-by-2-years
hii.com/news/hii-moves-enterprise-cvn-80-for-first-time-enabling-construction-of-two-aircraft-carriers-at-once
usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/december/armaments-innovations-steam-powered-cat
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4428513/uss-nimitz-conducts-milestone-departure-from-naval-base-kitsap/
globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/ntsp/cv-alre-a_2002.pdf
aol.com/articles/fast-fighter-jets-off-aircraft-024500000.html
airfactsjournal.com/2023/12/what-it-takes-to-catapult-off-an-aircraft-carrier
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/364638/authors#authors
nytimes.com/1946/09/01/archives/slingshot-hurls-plane-up-quickly-device-gets-craft-aloft-with-a-run.html
wionews.com/photos/-pure-water-why-the-uss-abraham-lincoln-boils-seawater-just-to-launch-its-fighters-1775929069075/1775929069080
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The president wants the Navy to do away with the more advanced aircraft-launching electromagnetic catapults found in its newest Ford-class supercarriers, in favor of the legacy steam systems found in earlier Nimitz-class ships. And truth be told, there’s actually a lot more to this debate than it seems at first glance.
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Citations:
everycrsreport.com/files/20101223_RS20643_0ea66592b46783e446ca7ef4c7c2e62f7b7b3ba7.pdf (appears twice, rId17 & rId20)
theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/trump-wants-steam-power-navy/688323
https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/35519
murphysys.com/dcs/P-816.pdf
usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1954/october/catapults-come-age
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19960000737/downloads/19960000737.pdf
studylib.net/doc/25622089/steamcatapultinfousnlsoreferencemanual1999
gao.gov/assets/gao-15-22.pdf
usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1998/september/surge-97-demonstrating-carriers-firepower-potential
whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/rebuilding-the-united-states-navy-and-americas-shipbuilding-industrial-base
twz.com/sea/why-the-ford-class-carriers-island-superstructure-is-located-so-far-back
news.usni.org/2026/05/08/future-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-delayed-by-2-years
hii.com/news/hii-moves-enterprise-cvn-80-for-first-time-enabling-construction-of-two-aircraft-carriers-at-once
usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/december/armaments-innovations-steam-powered-cat
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4428513/uss-nimitz-conducts-milestone-departure-from-naval-base-kitsap/
globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/ntsp/cv-alre-a_2002.pdf
aol.com/articles/fast-fighter-jets-off-aircraft-024500000.html
airfactsjournal.com/2023/12/what-it-takes-to-catapult-off-an-aircraft-carrier
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/364638/authors#authors
nytimes.com/1946/09/01/archives/slingshot-hurls-plane-up-quickly-device-gets-craft-aloft-with-a-run.html
wionews.com/photos/-pure-water-why-the-uss-abraham-lincoln-boils-seawater-just-to-launch-its-fighters-1775929069075/1775929069080
