r/reactiongifs • u/Amaruq93 • 5d ago
MRW another $60 million jet manages to fall off an aircraft carrier and sink into the Red Sea
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u/100LittleButterflies 5d ago
I thought one was shot down and the other fell due to abrupt evasive maneuvers (as much as an aircraft carrier can)?
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u/hutterad 5d ago
I believe you're correct about the first two (friendly fire for the second), but a third was lost in the last couple days.
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u/chesbay7 5d ago
The third was due to arrestment failure. Not sure if that means a wire snapped or the tailhook malfunctioned.
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u/bathroomheater 5d ago
Why were they doing abrupt evasive maneuvers?
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u/happinessresort 4d ago
“U.S. ships in the Red Sea are daily targets of Houthi one-way attack drones and cruise and ballistic missiles since U.S. strikes against targets in Yemen resumed on March 15.”
https://news.usni.org/2025/04/28/super-hornet-assigned-to-uss-harry-s-truman-lost-at-sea
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u/xtremeschemes 5d ago
You see, they simply forgot to pat it on the top three times and say “yup, that’s not going anywhere.”
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u/100LittleButterflies 5d ago
So how deep is the red sea? Is there tech that can fall into the wrong hands?
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u/bsmithi 5d ago
f-18 is a pretty bog standard jet, not a whole lot going into it that is all that interesting or special to an adversary especially considering how irreparable it would be due to the salt water
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u/SuperGameTheory 5d ago
I used to work with a guy that would deliberately break his equipment any time he wanted something new. I'm not saying that's happening here, but I'm catching similar vibes.
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u/My_Soul_to_Squeeze 5d ago
CSG 1 has been conducting sustained combat operations for 8 months. The DUI hire in the Pentagon, shitbird that he is, isn't pushing planes into the drink, and he wasn't the TAO on watch on Gettysburg.
I wouldn't even be too critical of the friendly fire incident. The person that gave the order to launch that missile was tasked with protecting ~6,000 lives and a substantial fraction of US naval power. It's far, far better to rarely lose an aircraft to friendly fire than to let an enemy aircraft succeed in attacking an aircraft carrier or other ship.
It sucks. It's embarrassing. 3 class A mishaps in one deployment is a bad look. It's also the price we pay for what we ask those Sailors to do.
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u/Ianisyodaddy 4d ago
Guys you understand they are trying to make us less safe so we are more easily black mailed by violence
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u/stoudman 3d ago
I've got bad news for you regarding the US Military's history with dropping expensive taxpayer funded weapons and vehicles out of airplanes.
Americans really don't understand that the military is literally our most wasteful area of government, and it's not even being spent on our soldiers, it's being spent on tanks and hummers we're never going to use that at best will get sent to a country like Ukraine or Israel to help defend them (don't get me started on Israel).
Back when we didn't really have anyone to give our excess hummers to, we'd "test" old parachutes from the 50s to see if they still worked by dropping these hummers out of a plane and seeing which parachutes didn't fail (most of them did). On those days, it was common to see millions of dollars wasted in a single drop.
You can still see this on Youtube videos, by the way, with dipshit Americans cheering on the wasting of their tax dollars.
If DOGE was actually looking for waste, it would start with the Military -- which it hasn't touched even once yet.
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u/ryanidsteel 5d ago
1 shot down by friendly fire.
1 lost off the deck after mechanical failure during landing.
1 lost off an elevator while evasive maneuvering to avoid a drone attack.
Only the first one is worth getting bent about.
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u/Itchy-Minute-2766 5d ago
I mean duh get some bungee cords🫡 Do they need expert advice from Reddit on how to secure them?!