Gateway Pundit
Another U.S. Navy fighter jet narrowly avoided becoming the second victim of a “friendly fire” incident over the Red Sea.
On the same night an F/A-18 Super Hornet was shot down by a surface-to-air missile launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, a second jet barely escaped a similar fate.
According to a high-level source speaking to Fox News, the second missile missed the jet by a mere 100 feet as it prepared to land on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
The Navy has since confirmed that the USS Gettysburg fired a second missile and is investigating whether the missile’s guidance system was intentionally deactivated. see more
Every U.S. Military aircraft is fitted with a friend or foe transmitter. Every single stinking one. WTF? Next time an F18 punches off the deck of a carrier the should SINK THIS SHIP.
Weirdly fitting that a US plane almost got buddy-stuck by a ship named after a fratricidal battle.
Sounds like DEI involved in this
F-18 as a tanker? Innovation? Or desperation. Is the KC-135 a big, fat target now? Have we got a bunch of panicked, trigger-happy, scattershot sailors on deck now?
First, there were the “training accidents”, now there’s “friendly fire”. Something is going on, and we are getting fed bullshit. Again.
F-18s have served as tankers for a long time. The navy cannot rely on a KC to be just around the corner.
https://news.usni.org/2015/08/12/navy-getting-smarter-about-tanking-mission-as-super-hornets-approach-6000-hours
None of my friends shoot at me.
DEI written all over this…..
Gosh, Mr. Cleaver, what’s the worst that could happen if we fill our military with retards, mentally ill, and jihadi traitors?
Yea, I take back all my previous comments on IFF, etc… To have this happen with both the planes in the landing pattern around the carrier is really difficult to even contemplate. All roads seem to lead to gross incompetence.
KR
@KR — Yup, me too. Once could, emphasis on could, be a technical failure. Twice is criminal incompetence by multiple participants.
You know DEI played into this because details are being concealed just like when a crime is committed and perp’s photo/ghetto name is not reported. Ever since Biden’s treasonous opening the border, the same thing has happens when heinous crimes are committed by illegals. Right now the Navy has spin doctors working on a plausible story for the MSM to dutifully report. Because it’s happened so many times in the past I guarantee you what will happen in the future: The Navy is going to fill us fulla sh*t to cover Biden’s *ss. Then, a Naval officer, with direct knowledge of the situation, will get out of the Navy and tell the truth; DEI was directly responsible. Research the USS Fitzgerald collision for a case in point.