This is what happens when your military is lead by whiskey leaks and the fat man.
With some friendly fire, that’s a funny term, like civil war.
– Sage Francis
The bullets send kisses.
Holy fucking shit, the “never shot down in combat” streak of the F-15 is over?
It’s not that impressive considering it came into service after Vietnam which is the last time the US faced an enemy with a real air force and effective air defenses. Not to mention the fact that the cheaper more numerous F16 has been the real work horse (and cannon fodder) of the USAF since then.
That’s for air to air.
I am not aware of any F-15s having been shot down in any way before today. They blow up by themselves or snap in two sometimes but that’s par for the course for any fighter jet.
Just did a quick search, and it looks like a handful were shot down during desert storm. Interestingly, 1 was shot down via sidewinder accidentally fired by a wingman during training. So, I guess the true statement should be, “never lost a dogfight?”
Thanks, I didn’t know. I just sort of picked up that “never shot down” thing… like… maybe over the last few decades? And when I googled the AI vomited up all 5673 windshield incidents, etc
when was the last dogfight tho, ww1?
Vietnam had tons of them, enough to force F-4s to get gun pods since missiles were not ready.
Pretty sure there were dogfights in Iraq vs Iran and India vs Pakistan conflicts.
The lack of dogfights in USA’s last wars are due to overwhelming differences in numbers leading to the weaker air force trying to avoid confrontation in general.
If stealth really works it certainly will favor dogfights versus bvr combat.
Yeah the two gulf of Sidra incidents in 1980s are the only time US pilots have seen actual “dog fighting” since Vietnam.
Each fight lasted seconds and only involved only two aircraft on each side but because they’re the only aerial fight the US has had post-Vietnam these two incidents are treated like the Battle of Midway or something. lol
Entire fucking books have been written on them, tactical “strategies” and techniques developed on them. Even had goddamn movies (Top Gun) made to commemorate these shoot down incidents. lol
I did the calculation and not factoring any fuel, ammo or maintenance, or the missiles that shit them down, each of these planes was worth about 7,500 years of healthcare for a single person
About $300 million dollars shot down.
“Oops.”
Why would the people at the top of this circus care about a measley $300M when they can just tax the poor and cut essential social services in order to expand the military budget an extra $500B?
They don’t bother taxing more yet, they just print more money and drive inflation up. We still end up poorer and they get their toys.
By coincidence the amount they would lose by taking greenland. The arms contractors.
missiles that shit them down
What a terrible way to go for those planes, though. :(
What about the cost to train the LLM that identified the jets as targets?
That one is measured in Celsius, not dollars
You mean that if I somehow collect 350mio you know about a scheme that would keep me alive and well for 7.5k years? I see the appeal of being filthy rich now…
Well, in bad lighting, they can look like Venezuelan fishing boats, so …
But hey, on the plus side, that means US tax dollars will have to be spent replacing these planes and that will increase GDP!
I am all aboard the Keynesian train, government spending stimulates the economy for sure. Could we maybe try spending the money on roads, bridges, education, healthcare, or even just a stupidly huge purposeless gigantic monument instead of engaging in fucking omnicide
lol no way bro. There’s nothing more productive that an overengineered overpriced overpowered tool of destruction!
slaps roof of f-15 this baby here can fit so much omnicide in it.
Let’s talk about its fuel consumption! Sixty seconds of afterburner takes more fuel that an average minivan would if it drove around the entire world.
And won’t that make you feel like a MAN!? HELL yeah!
Oh good I’m sure this will help lower the price of groceries and gas.
So how is this supposed to bring prices down again?
I don’t know, but how’s the DOW?
Down another 500 as of today.
Does that mean we can start caring about raping children again?
Phrasing.
Ouch. Lol. Another case of friendly fire. A self inflicted wound.
Then this country is moving in the wrong direction. Smh. Because of the Dow. /s
Lmao its like 48 thou
Dunno about that, but the DoW is alive and well, fulfilling its purpose.
Funny how the “peace President” needed a Department of War and a whole lot of war.
I think n AG Karen said it was over 9000 dollars.
Did her hair start glowing at any point?
How much does a fighter jet cost? A thousand dollars?
dammit i only have 699MM pepsi points
About the same as a banana
I knew grocery prices were bad but this is getting ridiculous.
F-15 or bananas the choice is yours.
I’m sorry, we have no bananas today.
Three thousand dollars?
What!? But fighter jets can be built in America.
The dollar is no longer the reserve currency. We’re onto Doll Hairs now
Well, you see. If Trump gets enough US soldiers killed, or as he called them, suckers and losers, there will be less demand for products and prices will go down. Checkmate, economists!
Down?
You know, like the F-15s.
Missile striking aircraft: My tax dollars in action
Aircraft being struck by missile: Also my tax dollars in action
Aircraft downed by friendly fire: My tax dollars out of action
Donald Trump’s fault. All of this is his fault.
“”“Friendly fire incident”“”
Let me guess, Claude said to shoot them down.
I think that was a friendly plane
You’re absolutely right, that was indeed a friendly American f-15 plane we shot down. Would you like me to make a note not to shoot friendly planes in the future? ⚡ 💪
Had to be Grok or ChatGPT. Claude got fired from the DoD because autonomous target acquisition was one of Anthropic’s redlines…
i clicked right here friendly fire off. what the hell grok
Worst kind of friendly fire. The unfriendly one.
With these knuckleheads running things, you can expect a lot more friendly fire incidents. Don’t worry, though, they’re all Biden’s fault. Or Obama’s. Or Bill Clinton’s. Or Hillary’s.
Potentially actual misidentification. Iran flies a mix of Soviet, American and European aircraft, including a decent amount of F-14 Tomcats.
Idiocracy in action.
Sorry, I need to clarify I mena real life idiocracy, not the the film Idiocracy which is way better than real world indeed.
Kuwait probably had their twitter account banned or they might have known
Proper IFF and allied coordination is too woke for Petey.
They’ve replaced IFF with Grok so why would they need to coordinate with allies?
Yeah right and those two jets just fell off the USS Harry Truman last year, accidents happen! 🤷♂️
Too bad the pilots are okay.
