A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They could have done a scandi flick?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

just imagine the structural stress from that

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m still trying to imagine something the size of a carrier making hard turns

Those are actually pretty agile for their size and can make hard turns

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

haha carrier drifting is fun to watch, I can definitely see how they lost a jet doing that