Posted on 10/27/2025 6:15:27 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
An F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents in the Pacific, USNI News has learned.
“At approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the ‘Battle Cats’ of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier, reads a statement from U.S. Pacific Fleet. “Search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11 safely recovered all three crew members.”
Less than an hour later, at 3:15 p.m., a two-seater Super Hornet assigned to the “Fighting Redcocks” of Strike Fighter Squadron 22 also crashed while flying from Nimitz.
“Both crew members successfully ejected and were also safely recovered by search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11,” reads the statement.
All crew are safe and in stable condition and the incidents are under investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
First Incident On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time
The following incident, separately, at 3:15 p.m.
"The cause of both incidents is currently under investigation."
These things do happen, even in peacetime.
I was on the USS JFK in 1976 in the North Atlantic about 500 miles off Scotland when we had a new F-14 Tomcat carrying a Phoenix missile go over the side and were treading near to an incident with the Soviets who had a cruiser in the area and saw exactly where it went into the ocean. (They wanted to get their hands on that revolutionary missile, and were prepared to drag the ocean to get it...and nearly did)
Then that very evening, we had a collision while refueling a destroyer, putting it out of action (USS Bordelon, it was eventually decommissioned rather than put it back into service)
Two unlikely things, happening within a 12 hour period. I was on the flight deck for both of those incidents!
Very odd. So those things do happen.
DEI Pilots?
two low probability events happening in the same area from the same carrier near china.
either it could be mechanical failure which casts an eye towards the maintenance crews...
or it could be some external force that compromised their systems and forced the crews to ditch.
obviously, the latter of the two is far more concerning as it would imply a technology at work of which we’re unaware
Do not believe in coincidences. Do believe that the Chines are developing AI malware and have found a way to permeate the on board computers that control virtually everything on American military aircraft.
“Titleist”?
I agree with your concern about everything connected to the web.
Same could go via satellite coms.
NSA had/has black box only connections. Now? every home appliance is self connect to the web.
Not good thing. Enemy controls would destroy entire nations.
Don’t rule out RF controls. We created a wall for the Brits during the faulkland island war.
Artificial ionization killing RF connections from the mainland.
Doubt it.
Spooky Crap.
We just remodeled our kitchen and all brand new top of the line appliances that are all internet ready.
We’ve never activated any of that crap
Not sure it will self connect.
We just bought a new Gas Range (LP converted) for our house at the farm. It works off grid. There are no clocks, timers, lights but it has a single battery to fire the igniters. No black boxes. Pure Simple. I am in the conversion process from NG to LP, they do not make access to the gas regulator easy. The mods are all change of orifices and 1 mechanical gas regulator setting.
We have to enter in our WiFi password and that isn’t going to happen
Agree.
That movie is one of my “secret pleasure” movies (the ones you don’t want to admit to people you like) and I love it!
There is interesting commentary about the scenes where the VF-84 Tomcats interacted with the IJN Zeroes, and one of the Tomcats maneuvering came fairly close to going into the drink!
Here is an excellent article which describes all that went on (I didn't see this article until some 40 years later, and it had a lot of detail I didn't know about):
An excellent article with lots of pictures from the salvage and discussion of the cloak and dagger aspect of it!
The President was asked about this by the media gaggle aboard AF1 on the way to Japan. He said it might have been caused by bad fuel although the investigation was still in progress.
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