Trump Orders Navy to Replace Electromagnetic Catapults with Steam

An aircraft carrier is a giant floating airport for airplanes.

Planes need a strong push to take off from a carrier, because the runway is short.

For many years, carriers used steam to give planes that push.

The Navy built a new kind of carrier that uses electricity instead.

That new electric launch system has had problems.

The first ship to use it is called the USS Gerald R. Ford.

The President, Donald Trump, told the Navy to stop using the electric system.

He wants future carriers to go back to using steam.

Trump has been unhappy about the electric system for a long time.

He talked about his concerns again just last month.