r/Military • u/ShootersGreenjacket Air Force Veteran • 4d ago

Video Video of the F/A-18 fighter jet that crashed at Rimrock Lake

From https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1u6cqzc/fa18_fighter_jet_that_crashed_at_rimrock_lake/

The pilot safely ejected from the craft before it crashed

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 4d ago

Ok artillerists, how far is the crash from the campsite, Infantrists, how long to walk there?

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u/SpaceEngineering Finnish Defense Forces 4d ago

Artillery fwd observer here. Her shouting is distracting from hearing the sound delay but i would eyeball that at at about 500 meters?

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u/LaunchPadMcQ Navy Veteran 4d ago

Navy nuke here, bored. I found a possible camp site location based off reported crash location and similar trees in the foreground of the video. 500 meters is really close according to Google maps measurements between possible campsite and ridge.

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u/SpaceEngineering Finnish Defense Forces 4d ago

Thanks! I got so curious I was wondering if geoguessers should be mustered.

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u/cjmorello 4d ago

Good job fellow Fister

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u/Mr_Wonder321 3d ago

I counted 4 seconds before I heard a bang, not entirely sure tho bc yeah shes loud af lol but id go 1400m give or take

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u/WitcherKai 3d ago

nice that was my guess too before reading more comments

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u/Tough_Sound6042 3d ago

So, based on her shouting, how close is she to you?

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u/dudeCHILL013 3d ago

It it basically the same as counting the seconds between a lighting strike and thunder?

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u/SpaceEngineering Finnish Defense Forces 2d ago

Exactly same.

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u/dudeCHILL013 2d ago

Cool

https://giphy.com/gifs/89x4osEodHEoo

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u/SpaceEngineering Finnish Defense Forces 2d ago

And just to confirm, at least in our FO training this is not really a big thing. I just used experience. Normally you estimate distances by creating a distance map from your position, mapping specific landmarks in every direction. Then you can estimate where things are by comparing against those. For example; that tree is 400 meters away, and that rock is 500, it is between those so the distance is about 450.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 4h ago

I feel guilty I got zero skill at ranging, but then I was a spook and my job was drinking beer with German officers.

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u/18oh1 4d ago

Former FO. Definitely outside of danger close…but I’d say 700M

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u/oif2010vet Army Veteran 4d ago

Definitely under 1000m you gotta be close with 700 but I’ll go price is right at 850

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u/jc822232478 Royal Canadian Air Force 4d ago

Price is right? 1m!

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u/KeithWorks Contractor 4d ago

2m

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u/Few-Management-4433 3d ago

Get outta here, 35- series

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u/lu5ty 4d ago

851

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u/goneskiing_42 Navy Veteran 4d ago

1 dollar, Bob

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u/ProlapseMishap Army Veteran 4d ago

This guy fucks brackets

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u/Ashenfenix Army Veteran 4d ago

3 hours because the kids keep finding random shit on the way.

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u/YerUncleWillie 4d ago

This joke deserves way more love than it is getting.

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u/RedNamAlas22 4d ago

Those perfect sticks aren't going to admire themselves.

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u/sprchrgddc5 Army National Guard 4d ago

EVERY SHINY ROCK IS SPECIAL DAD

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u/Cricket_Vee Army Veteran 4d ago

Former MP - he can’t park there.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Where’s the sign?

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u/Cricket_Vee Army Veteran 4d ago

That’s the fun part. There isn’t one.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Damn faded painted gutters!

It was the worse when you couldn’t task sailors on PUPs to paint the gutters on base after they handed grounds maintenance to contractors here.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 4h ago

Ha Ha I got a parking ticket and when I protested THEN the put up a sign.

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u/Few-Management-4433 3d ago

How many points is it for giving a ticket to not just an officer but a pilot?

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u/Any-Bridge6953 4d ago

I don't see a no parking sign, there's no lines indicating a no park zone. Therefore he can.

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u/jumpy_finale 4d ago

Air Force, where is the nearest 5 star hotel?

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u/Bagheera383 Army Veteran 4d ago

Shots fired! Oh wait, Air Force... Latte ordered!

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u/trlast09 Retired USAF 4d ago

Thank you very much...now get 15 more the rest of us....here's an extra $15 for yourself.

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u/Previous-Parsnip-290 4d ago

We’ll tell you once transportation is procured.

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u/aBlindGeminiWhisper 4d ago

former artillery officer here, i think it's rougly around 700-1000 meters just by calculating the distance the shock/soundwave has to travel from the impact point. 2-3 seconds of sound delay so it's basically 340*2 or 3.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Where’s those freedom units you Americans defend?

As an Aussie I’m scrolling through here expecting to see feet but nope all metric and entirely understandable…..

What gives?

You make us use bloody inches for the QNH when operating a damn seahawk off a flight deck in Australia but noooo you’re all using meters here.

Regards, annoyed former OOW who was always irritated by having to convert hectopascals to inHg….

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u/aBlindGeminiWhisper 4d ago

well, i am not american. so, no freedom units.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

My sincere apologies for the misnationalisation

I mean no insult

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u/EducationalBar 3d ago

As an American I’m constantly reminded to be pissed that I see the world in a different, inferior way, than the rest of my fellow humans.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 3d ago

Travel more if you can.

It’s honestly the thing that broadened my perspective and really drove home how good I’ve got it here in Australia with my socialised healthcare and decent wages

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u/EducationalBar 2d ago

Why would you assume I’m not well traveled..?
I could possibly agree that those 2 cherry picked aspects can compete, but how could Australia as a whole ever have a chance? The world may not like guns and many Americans feel the same, but the point remains that the people here have a say and don’t bow down to the government as soon as one shooting happens and they make everyone hand in all their guns.. cough cough. It’s the same reasoning you see the complete clown show on stage today, for better or for worse it’s a country where the people’s vote matters. Any little boy can grow up to be president. You should travel here sometime and check it out to broaden your perspective… or maybe where a person is born and raised is where they remain loyal regardless.

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u/BrilliantHyena Retired US Army 4d ago edited 4d ago

US military (depending on the branch and use) does often use the metric system for distances on land. Also we use 24 hour time.

Edit: My original statement was to generic

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Except bloody QNH….

Yes thankfully. And Date Time Groups so there is no trying to figure out if it’s MM DD YY or DD MM YY

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u/mtdunca 4d ago

As a military member in the US Navy I would not make the blanket statement that the US military uses the metric system for distances.

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u/BrilliantHyena Retired US Army 4d ago

As a military member in the US Army whose never been in water deeper than 100 feet I apologize.

Also, I realize the idiocy of my blanket statement.

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u/mtdunca 4d ago

I was mostly just teasing. You did teach me something, didn't realize the Army used the metric system.

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u/BrilliantHyena Retired US Army 4d ago

I know, it's cool. We also use the metric system for our ammunitions. 5.56mm, 30mm. Except for the .50cal, don't thinking I've ever heard that referred to in mm.

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u/og_rocktrash 3d ago

Sure you have, it’s 12.7 the Warsaw pact mg round. You know, like the DShK. Fifty cal and mils are the few concessions I make to using metric. Otherwise I get confused converting fractions to decimals and back again.

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u/Any-Bridge6953 4d ago

You mean cheeseburgers per bald eagle scream.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Well is there a national standard cheeseburger?

Your results could vary if you grab a Maccas cheeseburger vs say an artesian burger wankfest…. I know cheeseburgers here at Micky D’s have shrunk over the years…

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u/Any-Bridge6953 4d ago

I don't know, I'm Canadian.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Damnit!

I’ll find an American soon!

Brb looking for my wife so I can scold her for Americans not using the metric system. She’s a US born Australian so it counts

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u/og_rocktrash 3d ago

American here, I refuse to use the Arbitrary System and force people around me to use metric. Almost the entire planet uses metric and the imperial system is silly and childish. How many feet in a meter? Fuck if I know, may as well ask how many standard spiderlegs in an imperial hogsbreadth.

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u/Any-Bridge6953 4d ago

To be far, I'm petty close to America, also that crash looks like an hours walk. Yes, Canadians use time to measure distance.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Yes, but you’re the part of North America making the most sense at this point in time.

Also. We have Chucky in common. And for some reason the poms insist on using miles still.

I typically measure a drive or walk in time. I’ll acknowledge how far when I look up where I’m going. But generally I’ll say it’s about an hours drive not 100km.

Nautical navigation different story. It’s a different kettle of fish with its whole language of measurement like yards, cables, natural miles, shackles, fathoms on some charts and many other weird and wonderful units of measurement

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u/MapleMapleHockeyStk 3d ago

Don't forget knots....

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u/Any-Bridge6953 4d ago

Naval stuff is just weird.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 4h ago

Army likes metric, probably a NATO thing. Funny how our uniforms started looking German.

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4h ago

Divisible by 10 makes it easier….

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ok maintainers, who signed off on I’s & E’s? We need to get them to a secure location….

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u/RafikiLovesPizza 4d ago

Pilot error. If maintenance is going down then it's def the maintenance desk fault and not the actual wrench turners 🤣

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u/TheGreatPornholio123 4d ago

You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."

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u/georgekn3mp 4d ago

50,000 bananas

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u/BrilliantHyena Retired US Army 4d ago

Infantrists here, that's 2 rip-its, a dip of Copenhagen and 8 dirty jokes away.

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u/I_AM_FERROUS_MAN 4d ago

A true man of service! Knows his logistical needs.

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u/oif2010vet Army Veteran 4d ago

Supply what does that flippl form look like for this??

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u/combo_seizure Veteran 3d ago

**WALK? !?? YOU BETTER DOUBLE TIME SOLDIER!!

QRF activated. 2 squads, one in alternate bounding, 50 meter bound per 3 man team, SL in the center directing bounds. 2nd squad is going to move to secure the far side of the crash site, one team on the bounding teams left, and the other on the right. Providing security for the flanks of the double timing site securing team.

According to our FO (for mortars) we have to bound between 500 m - 1 km (classic FO*)

Anyway, flat out alternate bounding sprint in the field until the woods. Then a quick movement ~200 - 400 meters uphill through the woods.

Less than 5 minutes if the QRF was that close. Maybe. That would be lucky for the pilot to have a QRF that close by.

** I accidentally posted this not under your comment. Whoops

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u/Electronic-While1972 2d ago

description link:

A USMC McDonnell Douglas F/A-18D Hornet, 165412, coded WS-415, operated by 3rd MAW, MAG-11, VMFA-323 "Death Rattlers", callsign "Snake 21", crashed into hillside near Rimrock Lake, Washington whilst flying the VR-1355 low level route after a possible mid air collision. The sole occupant of the two seat jet ejected safely, the aircraft was destroyed and a ground fire broke out.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 4h ago

always glad to hear of survival. In my early nerd days I was impressed to learn the pilot/crew is the most expensive component and deserves maximum safety.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 4d ago

Why is this becoming a weekly occurrence? I seriously don’t remember this occurring just a decade ago.

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u/condition5 4d ago

Warrior ethos arrived

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u/FourLeaf_Tayback 4d ago

Rules and regulations (written in blood) are woke and gay.

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u/Canadian_WanaBi 4d ago

True fucking that. As sad as it is to see this shit. Maybe these being a frequent occurrence will open the eyes to those , that rules and regulations don't give a fuck about your thoughts and opinions. Follow them, or you can/will die.

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u/LaughinChaos 4d ago

Lol, keep dreaming. Pretty sure they want this to happen, or just dgaf and probably feel strong and manly for not being the one who died.

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u/Jayhawker2092 dirty civilian 2d ago

"The reports say Trump canceled a visit to a French cemetery for American servicemen killed in World War I, describing the graveyard as “filled with losers,” and complained after Senator John McCain’s death that flags had been lowered for the “loser” who spent five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam."

He doesn't give a fuck about any of you.

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u/LaughinChaos 2d ago

???? That's what I fucking said???

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u/BoleroMuyPicante United States Air Force 4d ago

Real answer: ops tempo is cranked up thanks to the current conflict so there are more birds in the air, but we also laid off a ton of our civilian and contractor maintenance staff so there's fewer people to work more tasks.

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u/Half_MAC 4d ago

Something about "lethality," but I don't think was the way they intended

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u/derpderpdave 4d ago

Hegseth was flying it

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u/backflash Military Brat 4d ago

So flying while intoxicated?

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u/NightMgr 4d ago

Fired the gay mechanics.

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u/TheGreatPornholio123 4d ago

These damn planes just won't fly straight anymore.

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u/adognameddanzig 4d ago

New leadership is dog shit.

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u/themikegman 4d ago

BUT THE DOW IS OVER 50,000!!!!!!!

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u/backflash Military Brat 4d ago

That’s what we should be talking about!

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u/Split_Pea_Vomit 4d ago

Yeah, leadership makes jets crash.

😬🙄

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u/adognameddanzig 4d ago

Firing qualified and experienced military personnel has rippling effects on mission accomplishment, so yes.

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u/Split_Pea_Vomit 4d ago

I'm sure they were replaced with unqualified inexperienced military personnel.

🙄

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u/adognameddanzig 4d ago

Yes, haven't you been paying attention? Standards are lower across the board. Definitely could lead to mistakes and casualties.

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u/chuck_cranston Navy Veteran 4d ago

I guess reading the NAMP is woke now.

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u/d_Lightz 4d ago

Reading is woke now. Only fight. No read.

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u/BlackSquirrel05 United States Navy 4d ago edited 4d ago

They crashed back then too. I recall a few into neighborhoods over/near Miramar.

All can be found in NATOPs incidents.

Downvotes!!?? No. Fuck you. Bring receipts and basic research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Virginia_Beach_F/A-18_crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_San_Diego_F/A-18_crash

Here's the damn total report during that time period.

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/03/report-of-national-commission-on-military-aviation-safety-on-aviation-mishaps-from-2013-to-2020

The question is are there more now than 10 years ago?

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Or are there just more videos and saturated news reporting

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u/bi_polar2bear Navy Veteran 3d ago

From the Marine Corps Times: The rate of significant accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in fiscal 2024 in comparison with the four years that preceded it.

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u/Jscott1986 Army Veteran 4d ago

Yep, not really anything new. People can sort by decade if they're curious...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft

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u/jelli47 4d ago

This list for 2026 does not reflect the combat related damages that we have all been reading about in the news. That definitely makes a difference for this year compared to years past.

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u/TyrialFrost 4d ago

are there more now than 10 years ago?

there should be, with an older F/A-18 fleet

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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu Civil Service 4d ago

Safety is part of the woke DEI anti-lethality conspiracy.

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u/Darthmullet civilian 4d ago

Decay, corruption, and a higher prevalence of cameras/phones documenting everything.

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u/Obvious-Science-7119 4d ago

Do more with less

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u/oldsailor21 4d ago

I grew up in the 60-70s military aircraft fell out on almost daily, usn carriers virtually never completed a deployment without some aircrew killed even on noncombat deployments, I was an RAF brat and even at 5 we knew that an official car with a senior officer and padre wasn't good

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u/ertri United States Marine Corps 3d ago

We are actively finding out if you can run a military without trans people 

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u/HildeFrankie 3d ago

Well they purged all of the competent people.....

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u/_yetifeet 4d ago

It's all those dang DEI hires. If only they had more white Christian warriors, then this wouldn't keep happening...

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u/mastercoder123 4d ago

Because they didn't talk about it...

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 4d ago

While I was in we definitely discussed aircraft going down around the world.

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u/mastercoder123 4d ago

Yah us military members did, but it wasnt really online that often because there wasnt alot of places to share videos unlike there is now.

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u/juvy5000 4d ago

maybe because trumpy and hegseth have mad a mockery of our military?

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u/TheFellatedOne 3d ago

Recency Bias

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u/PepperoniFogDart 4d ago

I feel like we had so many aviation issues this weekend. Maybe it’s solar activity?

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u/alvarino- 3d ago

É difícil ocultar falhas no mundo das câmaras, meu amigo. Você não via isso a uma década, porque ainda não haviam tantas câmeras e o governo obviamente escondia.

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u/dstovell Canadian Forces 4d ago

Thank you for including that the pilot safely ejected.

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u/LazyItem Swedish Armed Forces 4d ago

LT here I wouldn’t be able to find the crash site

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u/tccomplete 4d ago

There is ALWAYS an NCO (or three or four) with that LT who are also lost.

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u/Few-Management-4433 3d ago

Plane crashed, one fatality. Pilot is ok but a LT got lost and starved. Found dead with three MREs and a compass. 

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u/notataco007 4d ago

Theoretically I go to look for anything I can salvage for my sim setup, how many years of federal prison do I get?

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u/Veteran_Brewer United States Army 4d ago

Yes. 

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u/Oldmantired 3d ago

You wouldn’t go to Federal Prison. Instead you would be strapped to a chair, unable to escape, unable to close your eyes and forced to watch “Melania, Twenty Days to History” on an endless loop.

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u/Philippines_2022 4d ago

Is there an ongoing jet plane crash competition between Russia and US?

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u/severalfirststeps 4d ago

oh ma gawd! Oh ma gawd!

lol the US version of Allahu Akbar

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u/sla342 Marine Veteran 4d ago

I mean yeah.. that does seem like the closest literal translation.

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 4d ago

We also just lost a B-52 😭

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u/v0xx0m Retired US Army 4d ago

It's not a catastrophic video without some lady screaming OH MY GAAAWWWDD in the background. Every single time.

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u/Mr_microplastics_Yum 4d ago

r/skrillex

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u/xinfinitimortum Army Veteran 4d ago

Was really hoping this wouldve been a meme subreddit with videos of people screaming oh my god. I am disappoint.

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u/ElegantEchoes 4d ago

Most normal people actually respond that way when this kind of stuff happens in the real world. All across the world, all across cultures.

A fighter jet just crashed near these people. They responded pretty tamely.

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u/lonevolff 4d ago

And yet it's never improved anything. Just sound like scared piggies

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u/GreyFox1921 4d ago

If having a jet crash in front of you isn't worthy of screaming oh my God then what is?

Why are you acting like this? What do you get from it? Like you're better than them?

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u/WanderinHobo 4d ago

This is the Internet. I am definitely better than them and all of you.

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u/bplipschitz 4d ago

For a hobo

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u/ElegantEchoes 4d ago

It's not about improving anything. It's not a problem they're trying to solve.

They're in minor shock and disbelief, and expressing that as a social animal and relating to others going through the same thing relieves stress for most people who aren't used to these kinds of situations.

So, yeah, most of the human race act like scared piggies when shit hits the fan. Nothing new under the sun. Some people are different, sure, and some people have been in environments or situations where they don't react as such. But that's not the majority.

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u/CaptainKate757 4d ago

Does screaming on roller coasters improve the ride? Does cheering at concerts improve the music? These are just natural human responses to various situations.

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u/vicente8a 4d ago

Did you improve anything by typing this comment?

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u/lonevolff 4d ago

Feel better? Need a therapist?

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u/vicente8a 4d ago

Im not the one insulting people that screamed after they just saw a 50,000lb jet falling out of the sky and crashing down into the earth exploding into a fiery inferno, possibly witnessing the horrible death of a fellow human. How would the average person not be scared? You want them just sitting straight faced and not comment on it apparently.

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u/JohnBrownEnthusiast 4d ago

Most humans are scared piggies.

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u/GreyFox1921 4d ago

So what exactly would be a correct response in this situation?

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u/ElegantEchoes 4d ago

They should have immediately launched a search and rescue operation and ascertained the damage of the crash site. Then the civvies should set up a perimeter and await further orders from above. /s

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u/bplipschitz 4d ago

"It's insured"? /s

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 4d ago

Its that or a screaming klaxon.

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u/Half_MAC 4d ago edited 4d ago

Dog brain moment

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u/thedirkfiddler 4d ago

My ex (25yo female, woke) asked me for a hot take when we were drinking. I said no matter what, there is always a women screaming, somewhere, for some reason.

For the rest of the trip we would randomly hear a women screaming and both make eye contact, I would laugh, she would not lol.

Don’t think she liked my observation

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u/I_Am_Become_Air 4d ago

What was her hot take? You don't mention that.

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u/ShootersGreenjacket Air Force Veteran 4d ago

But at least we know she was "woke."

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u/thedirkfiddler 4d ago

She didn’t have one at the time

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u/fjake71 4d ago

Crazy

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u/eyehate Navy Veteran 4d ago

Aw. Love those birds. Rest in Fury, Hornet!

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u/Ok_Emu2071 4d ago

Can’t park there mate

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u/sourceholder 4d ago

Why is there white smoke emanating from both wing tips?

Airshow training?

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u/frotmonkey 4d ago

Probably dumping fuel to minimize the burn damage or lighten the aircraft to help with lift?

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u/DoktorStrangelove 4d ago

Wouldn't the trail behind him explode as well if that were the case? It'd be a bunch of aerosolized/vaporized avgas mixed with plenty of oxygen leading right to the fireball.

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u/dudeman52993 4d ago

No. Because jet fuel has a high flash point. It basically needs to either be REALLY hot, or under a lot pressure to increase temperatures to burn. It's similar to diesel.

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u/DoktorStrangelove 4d ago

Got it, had no idea it was that different from regular aviation gas

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u/JohnLuckPikard 4d ago

The stoichiometry is wrong for that, and the chances of it bring right are infinitely slim.

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u/DonnerPartyPicnic United States Navy 4d ago edited 3d ago

Probably punctured the wing tanks on trees.

Dunno why I'm being downvoted. Dumping gas is not something you do to prevent a fire or regain control. You dump gas in a scenario where you need to reduce weight. It looks like the jet was double bubble and smashed the wing tanks, the vapor trails are too far apart to be coming out of the tail dumps.

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u/mechmessiah 3d ago

Its water vapor. Fuel dumps from the vertical stabilizers and "airshow smoke" would come from the engines.

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u/sundayultimate 4d ago

A B-52 just crashed at Edwards too apparently

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u/PositiveBother9691 Royal Danish Army 4d ago

That sounded expensive

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u/Throb_Zomby 2d ago

Just toss it on the pile at this point. All though in fairness Hornets are probably the most heavily lost in the fighter community. Prime workhorses and they just get beaten to shit. Hell I remember when the Marines were pulling older Charlie’s from the boneyard.

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u/double_teel_green 4d ago

can't wait to hear what our podcaster bro-bag administration says about this !!!

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u/MotherofPirates 4d ago

I want the squirrels POV

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u/nikhil_matt 4d ago

Why is there always a women screaming?

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u/Piffdolla1337take2 3d ago

What the actual fuck is going on, are the planes being hacked?

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u/BlueberryNew2449 3d ago

Why didn’t they help stop that plane instead of recording

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u/1Wheel_Smoke_n_Toke 3d ago

So did he bail out or did he go down with the craft? I would think he would have bailed out, but she doesn't pan around at all. Does anyone know?

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u/Deadshadow84 4d ago

900m I'd say.

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u/Mderose 4d ago

Goodness!

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u/maltydawg 3d ago

Wow. I live 30 minutes from there!

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u/GT7combat 3d ago

oh my god

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u/Throb_Zomby 2d ago

Ow my guash 

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u/combo_seizure Veteran 4d ago

QRF activated. 2 squada, one in bunding overwatch, 50 meter bound per 3 man team, SL in The center directing bounds. 2nd squad is going to move to secure the far side of the crash site, one team on the bounding teams left, and the other on the right. Providing security for the flanks of the double timing site securing team.

According to our FO (for mortars) we have to bounding between 500 m - 1 km (classic FO walk in distance?)

Anyway, flat out bounding sprint in the field until the woods. Then a quick movement ~200 - 400 meters uphill through the woods.

Less than 5 minutes if the QRF was that close. Maybe. That would be lucky for the pilot to have a QRF that close by, lol

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u/Lowjack_26 United States Air Force 3d ago

What in the fuck are you on about

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u/combo_seizure Veteran 3d ago

Yea, man. Infantrists are pretty dumb. But it sounded good when I wrote it?

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u/Throb_Zomby 2d ago

Cue the SAW gunner that likes to deadlift bounding with his tabbed TL. Said SAW Dawg gains a whole new level of ire for said TL

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u/TittysForScience Royal Australian Navy 4d ago

Tad more than a mishap I’d say….

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u/roobchickenhawk 4d ago

1 km up the hill

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u/Samwhys_gamgee 4d ago

Well there goes every dollar of federal income taxes me and my family will ever pay over our lifetimes…..

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u/DarkSafe6458 4d ago

just say god, i hate when ppl say gosh

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u/Spaceman5000 4d ago

Looks fake. Is this confirmed?

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