B52gator

One of the best, a true crewdog through and through

Miles was an awesome dude, mentor, and aviator. We lost contact over the years but I happened to see him at a fellow crewdog's wedding and it was great to catch up with him for a few hours that night. While I kept wanting to know about all the cool test stuff he got to do, he would mostly talk about what his family was doing and how proud he was of his kids. Tragic loss for his family, the Air Force, and the world in general.

8 on board

Fuck...looks like right on the runway too? Overhead footage shows there's nothing left. Low airspeed and low altitude are not good at all for the upstairs guys getting out. I don't even want to imagine about the N/RN.

Man, that could have been really bad and crazy lucky that they all made it out without issue. That was really weird how both jets were in sync after hitting each other. And also...WTF? How did they manage to do that?

I stand corrected

Couldn't the same have been said for OIF? I'm sure there were plenty of parents who were former military that had kids of their own fighting in Iraq over "WMD". I'm sure it's sentiment that will continue to be repeated. Not being dismissive of your point, it has some validity, I don't think this has been handled well politically...but that's just like my opinion man. But I do agree that I hope we use everything we can to smoke 'em win decisively (whatever that means), and get everybody home.

This is war...people seem to forget that whether one thinks we're in this for the right reasons or not. People (dorks on Reddit mostly) are calling this an abject failure and how the US isn't the air superiority king it used to be. We've reigned supreme in the air for nearly a half century and people have become accustomed to/expected that to continue. No one wants to see dudes/dudettes get shot down, but it's gonna happen, even with air supremacy. As @ClearedHot pointed out, pretty good mission success rate so far. Further, we haven't faced an adversary with this capability for over 20 years (maybe even going back to DS). This isn't Ahmad taking plink shots with his AK over in the 'Stan.

Anybody know if there are RTs over there? I've been out a little while but if memory serves those are the only 135 to 135 AR platforms

nickel on the grass

Fuckin wild man. 6 for 6 on all getting out and being upright though, can't ask for a better outcome than that.

3 Strike Eagles down over Kuwait. Blue on Blue. All made it out. Some wild pics and vid out there of the crews. https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4418568/three-us-f-15s-involved-in-friendly-fire-incident-in-kuwait-pilots-safe/

Doh! NASA Canberra gear up landing today.

The War ZoneThunderbirds F-16C Fighting Falcon Crashes in CaliforniaThe jet's pilot safely ejected and was transported to an area hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

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