U.S. Navy lost a $67 million fighter jet at sea after it fell off an aircraft carrier
U.S. Navy lost a $67 million fighter jet at sea after it fell off an aircraft carrier
Straps were cut by DOGE?
Haha, they are increasing military spending. Showing that reducing the deficit is not the goal at all. They were towing the plane around the flight deck and had some mistake, the tow truck thingy went off the bridge, taking the plane with it. Seems like a design flaw somewhere. Not a big ding to the military, that's like 0.25% of the available super hornets. Sure is a dumb way to throw a few tens of millions of dollars away, but growing up around the military, I've known for decades that the military are great at throwing money out the window.
I mean nobody got hurt and nothing else seems to have been damaged. If you're gonna lose a fighter jet I reckon this is about the cheapest way to do it.
I had a retired military buddy at work who told me it was one of his annual task to burn through supply, so they wouldn't lose funding. I still get amused when I think about him reinacting them spending weeks on end bored AF and snacking, while wasting millions of rounds of ammo, and tossing hand grenades
the tow truck thingy
Ah yes, the technical term.
the tow truck thingy went off the bridge
I'm not sure what to be more impressed with: that the tow truck thingy driver had bridge clearance, or that the thingy itself managed to tow a fighter jet up the island.
Houthis will count this as a downed aircraft
More like a drowned aircraft, amirite?
The number of combat defeats of the F-18 is somewhere in the single digits, so you gotta take what you can get.
As opposed to them intentionally dumping them in the ocean so they don't lose their budget.
Maybe a wave hit it.
At sea? Chance in a million.
Idk if people are joking, but the carrier was taking fire, made a hard turn, and the jet was under tow at that moment. Since it wasnt secured it went over, thankfully not taking anybody with it
Yet I had some moron IRL argue with me about rumors of a FEMA center blowing $200k on training, therefore it should be closed. They never bring up defense though.
Yeah, accidents happens sometimes. This isn't really worth worrying about.
I'm right here if they want to waste another 70 million
Highway to the fumblezone!
That's amazingly cheap for a fighter aircraft.
Old fa18, they were cheap back then and it's not stealth or anything.
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How exactly is this "not the onion"? Stuff like this happens. No idea why this would be seen as satirical in any way.
btw at the current military budget of ~850 billion USD for 2025 they could afford to lose one of them every 42 minutes for the entire year
Thanks Trump!
Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that carriers aren’t safe.
Well that's why they had to take it out from the environment.
"Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point."
okay, but it wasn't the front that fell off this time 😄 it wasn't even a part if the ship.
Also sounds like the ship was taking evasive action from hostels. They where probably bring up the bird from below deck storage and where getting it ready for the run way and the crew was not ready for the movement. I am sure training will be had from this across the fleet
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
Not safe for the houthis anyway.