They are launching trucks because they can still track them on radar when they land...
...plus, if you shoot a truck at an Iranian boat, it will still fuck that boat up pretty good - and its a lot cheaper than using a 500,000 dollar missile.
I'm sure the steam engine on the catapult works WAY more efficiently slinging a 2300 pound Dodge Aries K Car than it does trying to launch a 52,000 pound F-18.
Just imagine - you're an Iranian Sailor and you run up against an aircraft carrier.
It's out of next-gen fighters because the pilots all got ejected by an angry sentient computer guidance system.
Just when you get all bowed up thinking you're going to board and seize this floating airport, they start shooting junked out vehicles at you like some kind of modern day Monty Python skit.
Fetchez La Vache Mother Fuckers...
...Fetchez La Vache!!!
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