RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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President has suggested steam catapults every year since 2017, saying digital systems are too ‘complicated’ After nearly a decade of loudly complaining about the fact that modern US aircraft carriers use electromagnetic systems to launch fighter jets instead of steam-powered catapults, Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to redesign a new aircraft carrier to replace the modern system with the old-fashioned catapults he prefers. Trump signed a national security memorandum on Thursday directing the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, to make the change...
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President has suggested steam catapults every year since 2017, saying digital systems are too ‘complicated’ After nearly a decade of loudly complaining about the fact that modern US aircraft carriers use electromagnetic systems to launch fighter jets instead of steam-powered catapults, Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to redesign a new aircraft carrier to replace the modern system with the old-fashioned catapults he prefers. Trump signed a national security memorandum on Thursday directing the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, to make the change...
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The design change is expected to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process. The president directed the service to have Ford-class aircraft carriers, such as the Doris...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 5 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — UK, Other, and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Hill (Aug 14, 2026, 01:00 UTC); the most recent came from The Guardian US (Aug 14, 2026, 02:03 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 2 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “steam catapults”.
5 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/663308769017bf62588510f472c05d07
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