By sending these to the bottom of the ocean for coral to grow on now they are fighting climate change and habitat loss, a better use than anything Trump knows to do with them.
Also, if the US had lost as many navy aircraft to actual enemy combatants this would be triggering a mass defense industry fueled panic about being disastorously unequipped to perform basic functions but since it is a direct product of incompetence, the empty american flag brandishing rightwing defense people don't even perceive it.
I guess in a way it is uncomfortable for them to think about because it must remind them of how they are unable to truthfully grapple with their own desperate incompetence born from a desire to violently force a childlike ideology onto the world.
According to this source, under fleet service highlights, there was a 5 year gap between when they were first delivered to the Navy and the first carrier deployment.
So ~1800 days when it would've been pretty hard for them to lose one. Though I'm sure they managed to do it anyway.
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waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 295d
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 68 pts · 295d
We need to stop arming the Sea Peoples. They fucked up the Mediterranean once. They'll do it again.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 295d
Maybe we need a return of the sea peoples. They ended the bronze age, maybe they can end the age of stupidity...
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 295d
Atlantis will rise again!
sepi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 295d
Not the Weshesh again dude
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 62 pts · 295d
By sending these to the bottom of the ocean for coral to grow on now they are fighting climate change and habitat loss, a better use than anything Trump knows to do with them.
Also, if the US had lost as many navy aircraft to actual enemy combatants this would be triggering a mass defense industry fueled panic about being disastorously unequipped to perform basic functions but since it is a direct product of incompetence, the empty american flag brandishing rightwing defense people don't even perceive it.
I guess in a way it is uncomfortable for them to think about because it must remind them of how they are unable to truthfully grapple with their own desperate incompetence born from a desire to violently force a childlike ideology onto the world.
PatimationStudios@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 295d
Secret CIA operation to supply arms to Atlantis
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 295d
There has got to be a different way to pay off old equipment.
ulterno@programming.dev · 23 pts · 294d
Why do they have a 4 digit counter?
That seems like overprovisioning.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 294d
According to this source, under fleet service highlights, there was a 5 year gap between when they were first delivered to the Navy and the first carrier deployment.
So ~1800 days when it would've been pretty hard for them to lose one. Though I'm sure they managed to do it anyway.
ulterno@programming.dev · 2 pts · 294d
Thanks for the useful information.
That was my attempt at trash-talking.
So, what was the counter for that batch, 1805?
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 292d
Probably. Likely the only time the fourth digit counter would've spun off 0.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 295d
These didn’t just fall off the deck though, right?
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 295d
A wave? In the ocean? Chance in a million!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 295d
It's ok, they're out of the environment.
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au · 4 pts · 295d
more wind
Renohren@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 294d
Shhh, you are revealing DARPA's research for a new submarine class.
RusAD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 295d
So how many in total?
sepi@piefed.social · 1 pts · 294d
How many in total what?
RusAD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 294d
How many F/A-18F's lost at sea
sepi@piefed.social · 11 pts · 294d
I don't think these are lost. They know where they left them. They're just hard to reach right now.