• Hegseth personally shoving F/A-18 planes, $67 million apiece, into the

    From AlleyCat@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 10 08:22:32 2025
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    A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the
    third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/07/navy-fighter-jet-red-sea/

    Because Trump

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    Trump is filth

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  • From slothe@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 10 19:08:09 2025
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    On 10 May 2025, AlleyCat <al@aohello.con> posted some news:ZaKTP.318954$ujgb.37530@fx15.iad:

    A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted
    into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving
    the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since
    the warship left home last year.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/07/navy-fighte r-jet-red-sea/

    Because Trump

    Derangement Syndrome flare up.

    FA/18 USN, entered service 1984, aircraft is 41 years old.

    Because of Democrat pork barrel loading and graft, the USN has not been
    able to replace it with a cost effective solution.

    It is not entirely clear what happened yet, as the investigation is
    ongoing, but two of the people said there was some kind of arrestment
    failure as the jet was trying to land on the carrier and the pilot and
    weapons systems officer had to eject.

    Biden era (Dec 2023) DEI appointee Capt. Dave Snowden was fired for loss
    of confidence in his ability to command. He was drunk, wearing women's lingerie and ran into another ship. Snowden also neglected the carrier maintenance resulting in numerous equipment failures.

    His interim replacement is Capt. Chris Hill (Feb 2025).

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