Also the USN lost an F-18 off the Mediterranean a few years ago in rough seas. And last year we shot down our own F-18 in the Red Sea due to friendly fire.
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may 11, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/VeHZdfgPbJw youtu.be/IJ8AA-GDxd8 The big takeaway from this isn't Navy incompetence. It's the Houthis are able to over saturate the US Navy with threats that they are making basic mistakes like shooting down our own aircraft.
apr 28, 2025, 8:58 pm • 13 1 • view
You clearly know more about this than I do but I think a jet falling off an aircraft carrier is highly suggestive of incompetence.
apr 28, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 0 • view
The last time any US servicemember has been killed by air attack was during the Korean War. The US had a cheat code for war for 70 yrs. Now with the rise cheap drones, they've bypassed air dominance. Last January, 3 army soldiers were killed by air attack in Jordan.
apr 28, 2025, 9:06 pm • 10 2 • view
That’s the counter to missile defense, overwhelm defenses with volume. The Houthi’s are not dumb.
apr 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe not but surely you would expect that spending $1tn per year on the military would give you quite the advantage here.
apr 28, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 29, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Not when you're burning billions upon billions on "jets that can't fly through clouds" and "naval vessels that rust in salt water". Better spending > more spending. Always.
apr 28, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you ever been on a aircraft carrier? Fighter jets get parked with their tail over the deck on the bow many times. For me, I need to know the other factors, Were they doing a respot? Were all the tie down chains in place? Were they moving an aircraft to the elevator? Lots of questions.
apr 28, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
But this is obviously an embarrassing mistake, isn't it.
apr 29, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Not necessarily. It is the cost of doing business sometimes. It's not the first time we dropped b an airplane. In the Gulf War, on my ship, we had to push a plane over the side to clear the landing area when the brakes failed on an A-6. Both crew got out but the aircraft couldn't be saved.
apr 29, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the point about the cost of doing business is a good one. There will be embarrassing, costly mistakes in such a large organisation. But they are still embarrassing mistakes. A bit silly to pretend otherwise when a jet falls off a ship.
apr 30, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It appears they were in a respot, which means the jet was either hooked up to a tractor, or getting ready to, which means tie down chains had already been removed. www.yahoo.com/news/us-navy...
may 1, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Lots of DOGE energy coming from him.
apr 29, 2025, 2:48 am • 0 0 • view
Not really. Missile defense is dependent on many things, geometry of trajectory, capabilities of the interceptor, volume of fire, and other things. The question I have, as a former naval aviator, is what are the flight deck crews doing to be prepared for this? I also worked missile defense later.
apr 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 2 0 • view
If you are correct in saying that spending $1tn per year on the military does not give you an advantage over a small, regional force in Yemen then that just leads to more questions. Eg. Why spend $1tn per year and what happens when your opponent is significantly more formidable.
apr 29, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
In summary, you can't draw overall conclusions from one event. The enemy always gets a vote. The question is, what fights are worth it and which are not. We had overwhelming superiority in both Iraq and Vietnam and look how they turned out./ end
apr 29, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view
The Gaza conflict has inflamed a lot of tension and Israel won a long time ago. We refuse to use our leverage against Israel. It becomes a question of strategy. We could eliminate the Houthis, but at what cost? Are we going to invade Yemen? Short of that, they will keep shooting./3
apr 29, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Interceptors for hit to kill are expensive and complicated technically. Our adversaries realize that, and few other nations have the same capability we do. We have to prepare for the full spectrum of combat, the Houthi's don't. The better question is how did our policy decisions contribute/2
apr 29, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I think that's the wrong way to think of it. We spend our defense budget for commitments world wide. For 6 services. One incident does not mean the effort is wasted. No one was killed here, and that carrier did what it needed to to avoid getting hit. Rockets are cheap, but not always accurate. /1
apr 29, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view