tallowood wrote on Aug 18^th, 2026 at 3:20pm:


I am a Naval architect and engineer, not as much money in NA which i why i went for engineering.

Navy ships are all built to exceed Lloyds,Veritas,ABS and ISO standards none of these groups have any specs for EMAL.

US navy carriers are required to meet 4200 launches between failure steam does this EMAL fails between 400-600 launches.

Consequences of failure is a term every engineer is familiar with.

There are 4 catapults on carriers.

If one steam catapult fails it's close off valves repair pipe or seals the other 3 catapults are still operational it's a low tech repair the ships are equipped to do it relatively unskilled work.
Flight launches are reduced by 25% with one catapult offline

If one EMAL fails it the other 3 are shut down. It cannot be repaired while other catapults are operating due to immense voltage and electromagnetc fields.
It's a highly specialised repair unlikely to have spare parts on board to fix it. A single electrical fault can knock out all catapults which is far more complicated than fixing a mechanical steam valve.
This results in all flight operations halted just to fix one catapult.

EMAL is not even close to Navy requirements for 4200 launches between failure when it does fail no planes are launched.

Steam launches planes every 30 seconds it's cheap reliable  easy to fix.
These ships have to be self sufficient for repairs.

Back to the regular idiocy from those with TDS