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You'd think that an electric system should allow for relatively easy isolation – isolating electric circuits from each other with breakers is hardly new technology. Is this lack of isolation a design flaw of EMALS or is there an actual physical reason why it couldn't be designed with independently powerable tracks?
Looks like they've already issued a contract to fix it so it would appear it's entirely possible and someone just fucked up the requirements/design first time around.
You'd think the United States would take great care when designing their main tools for global power projection. And you'd probably be right; I can imagine that countless hours were invested into determining where the parts get built and which senators get to politically benefit from that. Technological details don't really matter; at worst you can just turn flaws into lucrative followup contracts for companies in the stock portfolios of top politicians.
I’m wondering if they mean that the points of failure are overall harder to isolate? Like, I don’t know… can the steam system work if the ship looses power? That would be a level of isolation that I imagine EMALS can’t do. But then I’d wonder, what if each track had its own generator? Oh… hey, just use steam generators. Problem solved, Trump won’t tell the difference,