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Trump has ordered the Navy to replace EMALS with steam catapults on USS Doris Miller. The move could raise costs, complicate construction and reverse staffing and performance gains.

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