USS Gettysburg downs Navy Hornet

[BashiChuni]

5 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

Oh man, blast from the past. I wonder what Hacker is up to these days. Great dude, terrible King Air pilot 🤣😂

Hacker is the fucking man!

[TreeA10]

I flew a CRAF mission (2003?) into Kuwait City international and picked up the Patriot battery that shot down the Tornado and Hornet. Flying back to Frankfurt, the Battalion Exec was sitting on the jumpseat and we talked about the shoot downs.  IIRC, the Tornado was interpreted as a ballistic missile track, had the wrong squawk codes therefore didn't respond to interrogation, so they shot. The Hornet was in a side lobe and the battery wasn't completely set up to fill in the lobe, also got interpreted as a ballistic track, the Hornet had the correct codes but the side lobe problem somehow affected the interrogation which failed, so they shot.  The Exec said they would have to do some serious overhaul of their procedures when they got back to Ft. Bliss. 

[ClearedHot]

I work with a retired Navy SWO who worked on said cruisers.  He places the blame ENTIRELY on the F-18 Drivers.

[uhhello]

2 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

I work with a retired Navy SWO who worked on said cruisers.  He places the blame ENTIRELY on the F-18 Drivers.

Obviously.  If the planes weren't flying, they wouldn't have got got

[RegularJoe]

I mean how dare they line up to land on the boat they came off. Serves them right for not being Air Force. 😁🫡

[brabus]

4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

I work with a retired Navy SWO who worked on said cruisers.  He places the blame ENTIRELY on the F-18 Drivers.

Did you tell him he’s a slack jawed faggot and can go fuck himself?  With all due respect of course…

[ClearedHot]

1 hour ago, brabus said:

Did you tell him he’s a slack jawed faggot and can go fuck himself?  With all due respect of course…

I wish I could give more context...soon as my work situation is about to change.

I've had to bite my lip in the past and not stab this Black Shoe Navy turd in the throat with my butter knife.  He went on and on at a dinner one night trying to tell me how Hellfire Missiles work.

In short - he questions why the F-18 as the tanker had to cross the beach.  And if they did cross the beach why no modes and codes.  He  says their system will not physically will not fire if the target had the right modes and codes.

[brabus]

I’m going to be honest, I've never interacted with a SWO who wasn’t an idiot/completely clueless. I have interacted with sub guys who were great. My personal number of interactions is not statistically significant, but I know a lot Navy pilots and they support my limited-experience conclusion. 
 

Put that butter knife to good use!