Too bad it was a U.S. Navy Super Hornet. I'm applying the Coulter rule, and the fact that it's been a couple of days and no poor missile tech has been publicly named and shamed tells me it was probably a DEI hire. Add this to the fact that retired admirals are talking about maintenance and staffing concerns... can't wait for the new and improved Navy ads targeted at white guys, fellahs.
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Gonna take a ride into the DEI zone
Highway to the DEI zone
LANA!
I don't remember this bit of Top Gun: Maverick 🤔
Is it actual friendly fire, or is it a skirmish gone wrong and they need to save face / create plausible deniability, like all the "training accidents" since the start of the Ukraine War?
Yeah, there are a bunch of different options, and we might never know, since governments love lying to people.
Could be friendly fire, could be false flag that we're claiming is friendly fire, or could be, as you say, one of our rivals calling the US's bluff and blowing one of our planes out of the sky. Friendly fire is actually the least bad option and, regardless, I'm glad that's what we're going with, because whoever did it, any other reaction would lead to much worse outcomes.
I ironically heard this first from Habitual Linecrosser yesterday, thankfully both pilot and radio operator bailed out successfully.
Maybe this is diversity, or could be a new system at fault as whenever America gets a new defensive system, friendly fire incidents has a spike.
Got me in my feelz. Brave little hornet.
Probably one of the CIWS guns, those are semi autonomous - probably popped a warning and the idiot on the confirm button panicked and hit fire without realizing it wasn't a missile.
So at the end of the day, human error?
That's my guess for whatever would shoot at a plane on approach and not completely obliterate it
Hultgreen-Curie remains undefeated.
No reason to jump to that. The navy does NOT want to explain that they just caught a case of the retard and did a blue-on-blue.
The Captain at that exact moment: "OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK... HOW DO WE COVER THIS UP?!!"
This has to be some kind of systemic failure at multiple levels. They saw the radar contact, didn't get IFF, didn't catch that it correlated with friendly and then someone declared it hostile, then decided it was close enough to fire upon.
This goes beyond DEI shenanigans.
funny thing is chances are, more friendly fire will happen in the next week or two. remember when navy ships collided with one another? then in the same month, there was 2 other incidents involving collisions lol.
10bux says the navy was testing AI controlled interception fire (CIWS/RAM/SM) and some dipshit left the Skynet button in "automatic" mode while he went to take a shit, and the plane then got picked up by it.
The Navy are absolute tech whores. I 1000% guarantee you they're playing around with the AI meme from the moment it got popular enough for an Admiral to read about it on Facebook. And considering that interceptor weapons are like the one place you'd want faster-than-human reflexes to push out possible engagement ranges, its the most likely place they'd have a secret program testing exactly that.
Coincidentally Yemen recently shot down 2, US, F-18s. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241222-yemens-houthis-claim-to-down-us-fighter-jet-over-red-sea/
Has there been any intelligent responses to this yet?
I'm assuming it was just a normal landing, and the plane wasn't doing anything hostile. So what are the normal processes to identify friendlies and what went wrong?