USS Truman loses second plane in a week

[bandrami]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea

[tbihl]

It's a shame that US OOB is so limited as to keep such an underperforming crew/air wing on station. Feels like this should be a testing ground for cheap US one-ways, if the navy really needs to be there.

[mdhb]

Glad they are focused on the real key issues like ideological, ethnic and gender purges of the military instead. Fucking clown show.

[toomuchtodo]

$120M in aircraft lost so far, $60M per.

[bandrami → toomuchtodo]

$180M; another hornet was shot down in a friendly fire incident last year. And this is the ship that collided with a container ship in the Med.

[dralley → bandrami]

And a second F-18 was very nearly shot down by friendly fire in the same incident.

I wonder how many hours of sleep those sailors are getting a night.

[bandrami → dralley]

6th Fleet is overextended and doesn't have time for adequate training and people have been saying this for two years now