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[–] 50 points 8 months ago (18 children)

This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Would you call this tanker safe?

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I was thinking more about the other ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The ones the front doesn't fall off.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's fucking Boeing. Just another case of MBAs running an engineering firm, someone has to die for those quarterly bonuses.

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    "The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing," a release from US Central Command said, using the operation name the Pentagon has given to US operations against Iran. "Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely. This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire."

    Sounds like a collision during refueling.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The second aircraft that landed safely was also a KC-135, the official said.

    Weird.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It is possible for one tanker to refuel another I think, or multiple tankers could have been flying in formation.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    People working for the US government do you really want to die fighting for a pedophile?

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    How much of our money wasted on this? I want the news channels to have a running tally i can see going up as it slowly wipes out any benefits that directly help taxpayers.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    "...during Operation Epic Fury..."
    I've not heard of this one, is this going on at the same time as Operation Epstein Distraction?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Stop lying guys it's a lot more humiliating that your planes are falling by themselves. Next you are going to say that the soldiers you sent to Iran are self immolating.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Sure, like the planes that “fell” off USS Harry Truman, like the three planes shot down by Kuwaiti Red Baron…

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    it's essentially a modified 707, "Massive" is a bit hyperbolic. Not much larger than a 737 Max 9.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty big for a military aircraft tho? Aren't most of them smaller?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    If you are talking about fighters and small transport, yes, but this is a specialized transport. The C5 galaxy is nearly double the length, lifts over THREE times the weight. You have the Amazing Antonov 225 (one bombed by Russia, two partially built), The C5 Galaxy, the C17 Globemaster, the Antonov 124, The airbus A400...

    In the commercial space you have many more planes larger than the KC135

    Here is a KC135 refuelling a C5, to give you a sense of perspective.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Did two planes collide while refueling? I wonder how many people died...

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    So it missed Iran completely?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, I wouldn't say it's good. You had 6 crewmen die for nothing. For a pedophiles war. If this moves us to pulling out of this shit war, then yes....good news. But I don't see that happening. Not with our government owned by Isreal

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    hard to have empathy for imperialists aggressors, they did sign up to help murder brown people on the other side of the world.

    Not to show off how smart and cool I am, but I personally avoid being killed in US wars of aggression by not joining the US military.

    even if you bring up that it's the only way to get healthcare and education in the US, bullshit. you're still signing up to murder people in the name of the state. you are less deserving of education and healthcare than everyone else.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago
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    As the fighting force is replaced by this next generation....I suspect the systemic lack of cognative ability I keep seeing discussed will have impacts.

    Also...no one has fought to defend US freedom since wwii.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Must have been an airmax

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