On the same day that President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the United States and Yemen’s Houthis, an F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed off the deck of an aircraft carrier. The fighter was landing on USS Harry S. Truman when the “arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard,” U.S. Central Command told The Intercept by email.
After the $60 million jet’s tail hook failed to catch the wire that slows down the aircraft, it plummeted into the Red Sea. Two aviators ejected from the jet and were plucked from the water by a search and rescue helicopter. Both were injured, according to an unnamed CENTCOM official.
The injured aviators are the latest in a growing number of casualties in the Middle East that the Trump White House prefers to ignore. As The Intercept reported last week, CENTCOM, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House are keeping the total number of U.S. casualties from the war secret.
The U.S. army’s wizards seem to be completely inept. The disappearing act is supposed to be done without a tres.
good. fuck the empire who likes to rain death all over the planet, and fuck the people who signed up for it.
Yes.
My only caveat is that I understand some recruits are ignorant (as in, can’t point out USA on a world map), exploited by recruiters, and are capable of coming to their senses. One example of what I’m talking about, a former Navy officer who joined to avoid homelessness and unwittingly took part in the horrific blockade of Yemen, eventually understood that they were part of a blockade only once they returned to the US, and later became a socialist anarchist.
In case anyone needs this said plainly: Fuck the empire, and fuck the people who signed up to enforce it. My point is that some of the signups who are committing these atrocities are capable of deradicalizing themselves and educating themselves once they understand what they’re doing to other people and why they were doing it. I am not saying this as some silly moral appeal - again, fuck the troops, ignorance is not an excuse, they are legitimate targets - but rather to point out pragmatically that those who leave the force may still be able to fight for a good cause despite their past actions, a fact that is sometimes lost in slogans.
Lmao so that’s the third F18 they’ve lost from this ship? They had that friendly fire in December, then the one where the ship turned and the plane fell off, now this lol. This paper tiger empire is losing a conflict over a naval blockade this badly to a country with a low nominal GDP, still gripped by civil war, and which has no navy. Hard to imagine this force winning against a popular uprising or peer conflict lmao
Another common navy L
Is this the second or third recently?
2nd in a week. I think 3rd lost plane since December. 1 was lost to friendly fire.
Results unclear, ask again.
The procedure when doing a carrier landing is to go to full throttle as you touch down. It may seem counterintuitive, but the idea is if you miss all the wires, you have enough thrust to get back into the air to go around and try again. If you catch a wire, they’re designed to stop the plane at full power. I’m curious what went wrong here to leave the plane short of the necessary power to get airborne again.
Are we sure this happing and not they are secretly being sold to our enemies under the table, and Peter is profiting?
Edit: my wife thinks that he is helping Putins army and that Victory Day is something they celebrate in Russia. Its red flags all the way down.
Perhaps it was partially arrested and the lines snapped, leaving it too slow to get airborne?
Oh I see, someone set all the “go upwards” switches to Off
So you’re into a lot of news !!
