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Post by pat perry on Aug 12, 2022 2:46:30 GMT 9
As Aircraft Carrier operations around the world have increased Ops Tempo, mistakes have been made.
A string of mishaps shows how tricky it can be to keep the aircraft on aircraft carriers
insider@insider.com (Stavros Atlamazoglou) - Yesterday 5:17 PM
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Excerpt: "Over the past year, three US and British jets have gone overboard off of aircraft carriers.
Two jets had mishaps during flight operations and another jet went overboard in rough seas.
The incidents illustrate the complexity of naval aviation and how it can go wrong.
The past year has been hard on the carrier aviation community.
Since November, three fighter jets — two of them highly advanced stealth aircraft — worth some $300 million have gone overboard due to accidents aboard aircraft carriers. The string of mishaps shows how tricky it can be to operate an aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier."
[Pat wrote: This has been related to the increased Ops Tempo of carrier launch & recovery operations. It's pretty bad when a carrier group has to stop in the water to fish for "The F-35C was recovered after a deep-salvage operation right under the nose of the Chinese Navy — but using a Chinese-built ship to lift the jet from 12,400 feet below the surface."]
An aircraft carrier is defined as the most dangerous 5 acres on the planet. Our Navy & Marine Brothers and Sisters are trained really well but it only takes 1 mistake in a series to create a catastrophe with loss of lives, money, and Ops Tempo. God bless them all including the Silent Service submarine crews and the Special Ops Seal Teams.
Thanks, Pat P.
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