{"id":22917,"date":"2026-08-22T00:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22917"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:29:37","slug":"why-would-the-navy-go-back-to-steam-catapults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22917","title":{"rendered":"Why would the Navy go back to STEAM CATAPULTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump wants to force a currently constructed carrier that plans on using an electromagnetic launch system back on the old steam system. The new system should have higher up-times, launch planes faster, have the ability to launch heavier planes, have the ability to launch lighter planes, and have simpler support systems. Trump&#8217;s decision appears to make no sense on the surface, but, the Navy&#8217;s test of the new system has not been released to the public, and while the Navy said good things about the test, they could be misleading or lying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why would the Navy go back to STEAM CATAPULTS?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xM3uvysz420?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump wants to force a currently constructed carrier that plans on using an electromagnetic launch system back on the old steam system. The new system should have higher up-times, launch planes faster, have the ability to launch heavier planes, have the ability to launch lighter planes, and have simpler support systems. Trump&#8217;s decision appears to make no sense on the surface, but, the Navy&#8217;s test of the new system has not been released to the public, and while the Navy said good things about the test, they could be misleading or lying. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xM3uvysz420<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1004,1673,221,553,259,1056,1282,1057,170,1055],"class_list":["post-22917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-planes","tag-ships","tag-trump","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22918,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions\/22918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}