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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mid-air collision

Yes, that’s the intended outcome of firing a rocket.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It wasn't a rocket... Two KC135s collided. One made it back.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Nimux2@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Straight out of Red Alert 3.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Fuck i hear the little screen activating sound

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the worst injury suffered by Abraham Lincoln…

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, his brain injury wasn't very mild

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Elect a clown, get a circus.

This is what happens when you put a fucking moron in charge of the military.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

...and above using MechaHitler Grok in their weapon system

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The moron isn't allowed to start a war, as far as the Constitution is concerned.

Trump is the end result of ignoring the Constitution for many decades, he is what you get. And he's the dumb one

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The constitution has always been ignored if capital deems it expedient

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We had a good run, a solid century or two. In the 70s, the FBI would nail reps for taking bribes (Abscam).

Now, there's no reason to bribe illegally, we have Super PACs and shell companies for such things, and it's ALL LEGAL, so it's not even "corruption". GOOD JOB

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, but it's not a war, you see. It's just going abroad to blow stuff up.

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

TBF all the manned planes are made by Boeing...

[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Ironically the picture in the post is of a notably non-American MiG-29. The rest seems pretty on-point, though.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

These freaking accidental accidents keep accidenting. It's so annoying

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Real "me putting on a dress shirt after not working out for two years" hours

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We perfected building a near peer military with Russia in mind. We build massive fleets of wildly expensive machines and great arsenals of similarly expensive ammunition. We made almost all of that shit overwhelmingly dependent on the supply chain of a flammable, nonrenewable, black fluid easily controllable by the nation we just attacked. One which has taken seriously the new lesson that such militaries are obsolete and top heavy. The way forward lies in small, cheap, autonomous suicide drones, cyber attacks, propaganda, and economic pressure. They're one of the few countries to take that lesson to heart. We have recently decapitated the competence of nearly every powerful system of our nation; political and military, and pushed our economy to the brink. We are led by hyper-overconfident, insecure, malicious idiots supported only by a cult minority of our population.

Not quite perfect is right. The rest of the world should bind together to pressure us, hard.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't matter. They have the capital and populace to throw into this meat grinder until they decide it's enough. We see the same with Russia, and soon we'll see the same with China. The world is getting too expensive and too crowded so the war machines are all starting up.

And thus the cycle continues; ad nauseam

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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] astutemural@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you're gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage.

OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just want to make everybody aware, that's not normal.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Planes only do this when they're very distressed

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok but what if they made the snoot droop?

[–] polotype@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And so the snoot would droop

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

The Snoot Droop, it's the latest dance that all the kids are doing.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

You can keep a zero loss record if you call it an accident every time.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I need more deets on this air craft carrier incident.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

They just do that sometimes

[–] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Lmao is this real?

[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Military LARPers: "Bu bu but the stats prove US military/equipment/personnel are the best ever!!"

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lying is the only thing Trump can do...

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