Do you think we normally fly nukes on small fighters over theCONUS?
I dont think thats how things work.
No I don’t think we do,(Marine planes never) but then again I don’t think pilots usually eject from jets on auto pilot that can still fly or have a wingman who lands rather than follows the ‘lost’ plane to see where it crashes. Lots of flat out weirdness in this story.
Actually there’s been several Nuke Devices that have gone broken arrow over the years. 2 that come to mind were Georgia and New Hampshire . GA is still missing and NH was recovered. Also 2 near Spain in to coastal waters.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find
And it looks like a total of 6 missing according to this.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032