US Navy Loses $60M Fighter Jet after falling overboard in Red Sea
https://fijournal.com/article/us-navy-jet-overboard
Posted by Mysterious_Dirt5543
US Navy Loses $60M Fighter Jet after falling overboard in Red Sea
https://fijournal.com/article/us-navy-jet-overboard
Posted by Mysterious_Dirt5543
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The US Navy lost a 60 million dollar jet after it fell overboard from an aircraft carrier. This happened in the Red Sea. It was reported the carrier had made a hard turn to avoid Houthi attacks.
Ouch. That’s going to put the insurance premiums up 🙂
The “avoiding houthi fire” needs wayyyy more attention. You don’t just get close to a us aircraft carrier. There is a whole fleet around defending them, jets to defend from air and SAM to attack things jets can’t reach, submarine systems to detect underwater attacks, etc designed to protect them from things **getting close enough to divert it off course**. These are GIANT. They look like islands out at sea. It turning requires a tremendous amount of energy and a lot more than just an f18 could have been lost if the crew didn’t have enough time to react accordingly.
The Truman carrier costs around 4.5 billion dollars, Im very interested in what caused this breach.
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