Trump orders Navy to return to older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
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According to a directive issued Thursday, the new mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the Navy’s most advanced ships to a system that takes more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.
Trump orders Navy back to steam catapults
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