Scratch one F18 -Truman (no crash)

Lawman said:
I’m pretty sure “evasive maneuvers” are a media-to-reader way of explaining the ship responding to an alert call and rapidly suspending whatever it was doing and reorienting to unmask their batteries on the threat axis. It shouldn’t have to deal with it, but I doubt anybody in command of a multi billion dollar asset is going to care about risk of an aircraft spilling over incoming probable explosives object. We were reminded repeatedly that since we couldn’t fold up and go in the hanger, if it came down to it they’d push us off the deck to preserve the safety of the ship.

Those tugs aren’t that big and if it was in the midst of movement from hanger to the deck, it’s not chained or anything. I’d wager money the injury was somebody leaping from something as they realized they were gonna end up swimming with whatever piece of equipment they were on.
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That was my thought exactly as far as the CO goes. If said maneuver saved the ship from getting hit by something theres no way he loses command. Hell if anything after commanding the Ike for 9 months and seven of those in the Red Sea then perhaps saving the Truman ot will only expedite his first Star.
 
Lawman said:
Oh you never asked anybody not on your crew to get you food plates.

You’re gonna end up with spaghetti and soap every time doing that. “Yeah we got chicken fingers but F you guys!”
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Our guys were too busy loading, along with the Navy -60s. Of course, they probably were brought out steaks and shrimp. :)

Kind of like how Marines are treated aboard ship…..officers pay into the mess, and the usual chili Mac is served. Right up until the Marine aircraft fly off the ship to a shore Det, then the ribeyes magically appear in the mess…
 
Malko said:
That was my thought exactly as far as the CO goes. If said maneuver saved the ship from getting hit by something theres no way he loses command. Hell if anything after commanding the Ike for 9 months and seven of those in the Red Sea then perhaps saving the Truman ot will only expedite his first Star.
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I’m just curious the overarching situation details leading to this. And how a carrier was threatened, what with its screen ships.
 
Lawman said:
I’m pretty sure “evasive maneuvers” are a media-to-reader way of explaining the ship responding to an alert call and rapidly suspending whatever it was doing and reorienting to unmask their batteries on the threat axis. It shouldn’t have to deal with it, but I doubt anybody in command of a multi billion dollar asset is going to care about risk of an aircraft spilling over incoming probable explosives object. We were reminded repeatedly that since we couldn’t fold up and go in the hanger, if it came down to it they’d push us off the deck to preserve the safety of the ship.

Those tugs aren’t that big and if it was in the midst of movement from hanger to the deck, it’s not chained or anything. I’d wager money the injury was somebody leaping from something as they realized they were gonna end up swimming with whatever piece of equipment they were on.
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They ain’t real big but they weigh a •-ton. That thing went to the bottom of the sea faster than the Titanic.

There was a legend in the Herk community about a crew that “acquired” an NC-10 early one morning departing a navy base out in the pacific. Got called a couple hours out to turn around and return to the base for an inspection for said missing gear, only to arrive with an empty cargo compartment.
 
Inverted said:
I watched an EA-6B go over the side with a tug and towbar while I was in the cockpit of an F-18 doing an engine run. It was terrifying. Everyone survived and was pulled out of the water.
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We didn’t lose any a/c when i was on The Ranger but did go to GQ (for real) once when an a/c landed and lost a missle over the side. Scariest 💩 ever given where we were. As you’d know the drill GQs were talked about all day leading up to them.
 
MikeD said:
I’m just curious the overarching situation details leading to this. And how a carrier was threatened, what with its screen ships.
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The French Navy had a guy at big conference being celebrated for downing a 1 way drone with his helicopter door gun last year.

My immediate reaction was “wtf is so wrong with your Air Defense process you are using a 240 from a helicopter.” He didn’t stay for a lot of questions. I think stuff like that, stuff like this, the blue on blue last month with the Tico… this is all indicative of a larger problem complacency and 30 years of GWOT/counter piracy type stuff has left us with.
 
///AMG said:
Have experienced maybe half this deck angle during really rough seas in the wardroom, and there were plates and glasses crashing into the walls everywhere. I've experienced ship's defensive drills before, but of course those are planned events and everything is generally chocked and chained down or secured somewhere. I wonder what kind of warning they had about this, I'd imagine it was pretty short fuzed (my guess), given the speed/flight profile of these weapons.
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So does this count as an F18 kill by the Houthi?
 
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“Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard.

They all jumped the hell out of the way of a runaway tow and F18 and, with wide eyes, watched it go overboard. Ker-splash!
 
Oxman said:
“Sailors towing the aircraft took immediate action to move clear of the aircraft before it fell overboard.

They all jumped the hell out of the way of a runaway tow and F18 and, with wide eyes, watched it go overboard. Ker-splash!
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Move, jump, or go swimming with all the danger that brings. Assuming one was in the cockpit while under tow. That had to be one heck of a jump
 
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