I forget what I watched that showed air defense operations on a cruiser and the difficulty of target identification when things are hot.
Amazing this hasn’t happened in 14 months with everything the Navy has been doing.
Bless our sailors – a couple careers will end because of this and, though I get it, it sucks.
So something worked!
The F/A-18 was shot by weapons from the guided-missile cruiser the USS Gettysburg after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on Dec. 22. Both Navy aviators were able to eject from the fighter jet and were recovered safely. One of the two sustained minor injuries, according to CENTCOM.
If it wasn’t a super hornet then it was expendable anyway. But still guys. Wear your glasses?
Friendly fire or ” blue on blue” is a universal occurrence in war. No one was killed, which makes this a learning opportunity, not a disaster.
The only reason this happened is due to the fact that airspace is regularly filled with Houthi missiles. It’s time we start taking this threat more seriously. Iran has been holding that entire region hostage for nearly a decade now.
Guy who did it was an Asshole, Major Asshole.
Insert simpsons episode where they shoot each other down 😅
Some poor E-3 is going to get fucked over because the officers take care of each other.
Navy should start buying air tags for their planes.
That’ll teach them to mess with THE NAVY!
Oh wait….
I guess that means our missiles are working well. But not our evasion.
Blue Falcon. Gonna be a lot of paperwork and meetings.
Woops, sorry.
“That still counts as one!”
Somehow they’ll blame the crew chiefs
Dammit, Greg. I told you to turn off that CIWS
Ahh you know how it goes. Xmas festivities got out of hand on board. Captain dancing around with old bottle of the good stuff in Santa cap. One thing led to another. Someone sat on the wrong spot. Then:
👁️👄👁️
Wait wait, did I just butt dial the red button there?!
Nice try Tony Stark.
I feel like the usa is competing against themselves
Looks like the biggest threat to the us is the us.
Lmao if it was russians shooting down their own plane everyone would be screaming how stupid they are. But when US does it everyone is like “ooooh blue on blue happens sometimes” or some bs like that..
The Captain of that ship is gonna get a please explain from the Pentagon. And he/she is going to be commanding a desk for a long while after this.
Thank god they weren’t killed
Ive got no hate whatsoever, but geez, this is pretty fucking embarrassing for Americans. it takes pretty significant degree of multi level incompetence for a destroyer to shoot down its own fighter in a benign environment.
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I forget what I watched that showed air defense operations on a cruiser and the difficulty of target identification when things are hot.
Amazing this hasn’t happened in 14 months with everything the Navy has been doing.
Bless our sailors – a couple careers will end because of this and, though I get it, it sucks.
So something worked!
The F/A-18 was shot by weapons from the guided-missile cruiser the USS Gettysburg after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on Dec. 22. Both Navy aviators were able to eject from the fighter jet and were recovered safely. One of the two sustained minor injuries, according to CENTCOM.
If it wasn’t a super hornet then it was expendable anyway. But still guys. Wear your glasses?
Friendly fire or ” blue on blue” is a universal occurrence in war. No one was killed, which makes this a learning opportunity, not a disaster.
The only reason this happened is due to the fact that airspace is regularly filled with Houthi missiles. It’s time we start taking this threat more seriously. Iran has been holding that entire region hostage for nearly a decade now.
Guy who did it was an Asshole, Major Asshole.
Insert simpsons episode where they shoot each other down 😅
Some poor E-3 is going to get fucked over because the officers take care of each other.
Navy should start buying air tags for their planes.
That’ll teach them to mess with THE NAVY!
Oh wait….
I guess that means our missiles are working well. But not our evasion.
Blue Falcon. Gonna be a lot of paperwork and meetings.
Woops, sorry.
“That still counts as one!”
Somehow they’ll blame the crew chiefs
Dammit, Greg. I told you to turn off that CIWS
Ahh you know how it goes. Xmas festivities got out of hand on board. Captain dancing around with old bottle of the good stuff in Santa cap. One thing led to another. Someone sat on the wrong spot. Then:
👁️👄👁️
Wait wait, did I just butt dial the red button there?!
Nice try Tony Stark.
I feel like the usa is competing against themselves
Looks like the biggest threat to the us is the us.
Lmao if it was russians shooting down their own plane everyone would be screaming how stupid they are. But when US does it everyone is like “ooooh blue on blue happens sometimes” or some bs like that..
Kind of reminds me of this one from the cold war [RAF shootdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Royal_Air_Force_Jaguar_shootdown_incident)
The Captain of that ship is gonna get a please explain from the Pentagon. And he/she is going to be commanding a desk for a long while after this.
Thank god they weren’t killed
Ive got no hate whatsoever, but geez, this is pretty fucking embarrassing for Americans. it takes pretty significant degree of multi level incompetence for a destroyer to shoot down its own fighter in a benign environment.
At least it wasn’t a civilian airliner this time.
That’s so Navy!
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