Naw, he was just holdin on too tight lost the edge. Turned in his wings. Now Maverick has his spot

He was emulating a North Korean missile for training purposes

FAKE NEWS! OBAMA MADE OUR MILITARY WEAK! SAD!

This changes nothing. It’s well reported, by now, that the Russian were given advanced notice about the cruise missile strike. Obviously, if the Russians knew, the Syrian military knew as well. It’s also been reported that the same base is already operational again; less than 24 hours after the strike.

Good story - thank you.

Same kind of shit has happened in every war this country has fought. Even the Greatest Generation(tm) was guilty of it during WWII, especially in the Pacific. War does bad things to people’s humanity.

Flight hours per loss is the only relevant metric and raptors and other American planes deploy all over the world and are constantly doing exercises in a way only the U.K. Even approaches

There are more than 200 f-35 with no crashed planes.

If a plane crashes in the soviet interior you would never hear of it, Russia is also as secretive and simply would never volunteer a plane crashed... it looks bad domestically and to foreign arms buyers.

Dem planes are older than my kids....the ones in College...bet that has something to do with it.

Actually it is an EA-18G Growler

I hope the USMC makes the same decision. The legacy Hornet mishap rate seems to be increasing.

Oops, wrong one. Here:

that’s what i was thinking too.

Very, very, very minor pedant-note: The aircraft pictured above is an F/A-18F Super Hornet. The USMC has not adopted the Super Hornet at present.

During peace time the burden of defending the country falls to the intelligence service. Its up to the NSA and CIA to keep track of those enemy submarines, although I’m not sure whose. Most of our enemies have submarines that are hardly quiet or capable of reaching American shores. Come on, who are these dastardly…

He slid up to the F-35, noting its subtle curves and ample intake, and Ray Wert knew he had to have her...