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.