Cool
$70M each. I hope Goose and Maverick are OK.
That’s not even a whole Epstein Ballroom worth of fighter jets, toss another one in!
There’s also a lack of air traffic controllers on US carriers?
From my 15 years experience in the navy I know for a fact the US navy is incompetent AF. I don’t know why it suddenly became news they are losing aircraft, it happens more often than you think.
Consider for a moment how this administration is going to effect competentcy rates, the leadership(l8r admiral) and soldiers maliciously complying if not out right sabotage here soon.
I just thought about maintenance for a while and yah I wouldn’t want to be a pilot right now. Or a submariner… They should be fine right? 😬
Lmao. Dude, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Just pump the JP8 and shut it.
Look what I found, just a part of my collection.
That zippo is from the USS Enterprise, that E2 batch too (squadron one two three).
Hr. Ms. De Ruyter went down in WWII in a last ditch effort trying to stop the Japanese fleet. Awesome to have a piece of that history
Ok. I like your pieces of flair.
I don’t? I have done 7 deployments with US ships in our combat battle group. I’ve done countless exercises with US warships. I’ve had fighter jets being catapulted a few meters away from me when I visited the USS enterprise, you know, the carrier from Top Gun, former largest warship on earth, now decommissioned. I still have a zippo from that ship.
I was electronic warfare commander so I worked in the CIC, with my nose on top of what’s around us, the group with the highest situational awareness in the CIC (air, surface and subsurface). Next to that I was chief maritime Intel on board.
I’ve seen the US navy fuck up so many times, I could write a book. Turkey has 4 OHP class frigates because the US accidentally shot live rounds during an exercise, destroying the bridge of a Turkish ship killing everyone on it including the captain and the battle group commander. Oopsie. This is just one of maaaany major fuckups.
But sure, I don’t know anything, you probably know better. Right?.. Right?
Uhuh. “When I visited . . . “
So tell us why you only lasted 15 years.
EDIT: Just so we’re clear, I’m not pettifogging the fuckups but you’re using them to paint the entire thing as inefficient, which is untrue.
They are indeed inefficient. Their command structure is too large, people have little to no responsibilities which causes actions to go slow and wrong as there are too many people involved. For example, changing course requires many people, where as with us it’s only 2. We’re trained to think ahaid, instead of just performing a single task without questioning.
The US has the highest blue on blue actions in general, percentage wise. Look at Afghanistan and Iraq for example. This isn’t because they are so efficient.
Many lack proper training, they don’t know how to use their own systems, they don’t know how to cooperate or perform procedures properly. The strength of the US military is quantity, not quality. Also their ships are really old, including their sensors. For example, they have a missile to shoot down ballistic missiles (SM3) but they don’t have a radar capable of tracking them, so they need Dutch, German, UK, Danish, Italian ships to be able to track ballistic missiles.
I lasted only for 15 years due to PTSD.
You know what, dude? I’m a dick. I’m sorry I pushed the issue the way I did, even if I disagree on the point you tried to make.
Thank you for your service and cheers. Hope you’re well and stay that way.
Have a good day.
Thanks. You too
So glad we got the best leadership! This shit would never happen under…wait a minute.
At LeASt TheY wERenT a tRaNs Lib RadIcAL ANtiFA WoKE DeI WarRiOR… Amirite? Smh
So sad that is an not insignificant portion of my countrymen who feel this way unironically.
Probably shouldn’t have put Chinese tech in your aircraft
Sure, because of legendary American tech quality. How’s that Zenith TV?
Wow that is humorous, there’s a lot of shit coming out of China. There’s a lot of shit coming out of every country.
Lol at the cope
Americans fuck up American aircraft on an American carrier, Americanly
hur dur, Chinese ineptitude
That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it’s human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.
A google search proves that wrong.
Use a better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good. Quit pushing ignorant garbage.
I was using it like a verb, it was ddg
I don’t have a problem with people doing that, but you can also just say “search”.
The US military uses a lot of foreign made parts especially in modern aircraft, they’re just made in allied countries.
For example Australia produces parts for the F35.
There is not an advanced piece of electronic equipment made on earth today that doesn’t have at least one very minor component made in China.
The US still has allied countries?
Argentina, Russia, El Salvador
You forgot Israel… And I feel dirty even typing that…
