it seems I am not the only person to be frustrated by a boss who does not understand technology. Nor are we the only navy to suffer political retards:
Trump’s obsession with steam sets up collision with US Navy
US President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on the US Navy to return to the days of steam-powered catapults for launching jets from aircraft carriers – a multibillion-dollar shift that could take nearly two decades to achieve and would likely spur a clash with Congress.
Trump has spent two years criticising the US Navy's decision to switch to an electromagnetic launch system for its newest class of aircraft carriers, citing delays in rolling out the technology and complaining that “you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out”.
Perhaps he meant Micheal Faraday?
I was surprised about eighteen months ago when I heard someone claim that if we had gone for CTOL and F/A-18 when would have regenerated Carrier Strike by 2017. He did not say why he thought that. Political dithering delayed the construction, political interference caused no end of problems, and political toxicity made it harder to mitigate against the consequences.