Just In: Second F/A-18 Super Hornet Lost in Red Sea from USS Harry S. Truman

Gateway Pundit ^ | Jim Hoft

[Macho MAGA Man]

Fire the DEI maintenance crew on these fighters. There's no excuse for the Truman to lose two of these fine fighter jets.

[Captain Peter Blood]

You’re making assumptions not based on facts.

[Celtic Conservative]

Some of this is due to the high operational tempo of the Truman. People get tired, things break, entropy rears its ugly head.

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[FreedomPoster]

Why is the trashed F-18 unrecoverable? The water isn’t that deep.

[sevlex]

Let’s see how long before the commanding officer is relieved of command.

[Drew68]

Why is the trashed F-18 unrecoverable? The water isn’t that deep.

I'm sure the Houthis will just idly sit by while we execute a recovery operation that requires days of sitting in the same spot in the Red Sea.

[jjotto]

Truman is overdue to return to port for maintenance. The Vinson is its relief.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You’re making assumptions not based on facts.

We don't need no stinking facts. 🤡

[T.B. Yoits]

Photo not from this incident:

[PGR88]

[Bayard]

Dodged enemy fire last week and a another plane was lost while in active combat zone conditions.

I’d say let an investigation happen in the normal course. But the silver lining is that no one is dead or seriously injured here.

[stylin19a]

or the Carrier Air Group Commander (CAG) or both

[Leaning Right]

I suppose this incident could be included in the argument that drones are the future. Like with tanks, expensive warplanes belong in the past.

[ducttape45]

I was wondering the same thing

[bigdaddy45]

This is FreeRepublic. Just scream “DEI” whenever something goes wrong.

[BobL]

“Just In: Second F/A-18 Super Hornet Lost in Red Sea from USS Harry S. Truman”

Not a big deal, just restart the production line. Of course we’ll have to buy the titanium from Putin and electronic piece parts from Xi, but no doubt they’ll sell that stuff to us.

LOL!

[Newbomb Turk]

It has an average depth of 490 m (1,610 ft), and maximum depth of around 3,040 m (9,970 ft).

Would you buy a new Corvette after its been parked in 100 feet of sea water overnight ? Salt water and electronics do not mix.

[ncfool]

They need to recover it, bring it back to the United States and destroy it so that nothing proprietary can be found by anybody who tries to recover the jet. Pretty stupid if we don’t do that.

[ncfool]

No, but you have to make sure you cover the wreckage so that anything proprietary could not be copied

[OldHarbor]

You’ll need a salvage vessel of some sort , the Sealift Command has 2, home ported in Pearl Harbor and San Diego , where they are at the moment , I ‘m not sure, there are commercial outfits, however in a war zone they probably are not going to put their crews at risk.

Someone will eventually get it although not necessarily right away.