American Warplanes Are Falling From the Sky

[onebyone]

Five U.S. military aircraft crashed over a period of less than a month beginning in mid-March 2018, killing 16 crew members and alarming military officials. Two of the crashes involved U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, underscoring concerns that the naval aviation fleet is overworked, undertrained and poorly-maintained.

“We’re at the breaking point on stressing the fleet,” Vice Adm. Bill Merz, the Navy’s deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, said at a symposium in Maryland in April 2018.

The spate of crashes began on March 14, when a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter plunged into the sea near Naval Air Station Key West in Florida. Both aircrew died.

On March 15, an Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter struck the ground in western Iraq, killing all seven airmen aboard. On April 3, a Marine CH-53E Super Stallion transport copter crashed in California. All four crewmen perished.

The same day, a Marine AV-8B Harrier attack jet fell from the sky over Djibouti and an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter crashed in Nevada. The Marine pilot safely ejected. The Air Force pilot, a member of the Thunderbirds demonstration team, died on impact.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/american-warplanes-are-falling-the-sky-25331

 

[war&peace]

 

[Politico]

I guess that Russia and China can go right ahead and attack America now

 

[313ghazi]

Why are they flying so much that they're falling out of the skies?

 

[faithfulguy]

Why are they flying so much that they're falling out of the skies?

US must have recently hired a lot of Indians that used to maintain Mig21. They were cheaper and out of work. So US hired them because of budget cuts.

 

[Mani2020]

Five U.S. military aircraft crashed over a period of less than a month beginning in mid-March 2018, killing 16 crew members and alarming military officials. Two of the crashes involved U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, underscoring concerns that the naval aviation fleet is overworked, undertrained and poorly-maintained.

“We’re at the breaking point on stressing the fleet,” Vice Adm. Bill Merz, the Navy’s deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, said at a symposium in Maryland in April 2018.

The spate of crashes began on March 14, when a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter plunged into the sea near Naval Air Station Key West in Florida. Both aircrew died.

On March 15, an Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter struck the ground in western Iraq, killing all seven airmen aboard. On April 3, a Marine CH-53E Super Stallion transport copter crashed in California. All four crewmen perished.

The same day, a Marine AV-8B Harrier attack jet fell from the sky over Djibouti and an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter crashed in Nevada. The Marine pilot safely ejected. The Air Force pilot, a member of the Thunderbirds demonstration team, died on impact.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/american-warplanes-are-falling-the-sky-25331

With the number of machines they are flying ...it isnt a high number by any means... also considering the fact they are extensively using some of these birds in operations doesnt make this a worrisome news for them like the title of this thread tries to portray ...

 

[AMCA]

US must have recently hired a lot of Indians that used to maintain Mig21. They were cheaper and out of work. So US hired them because of budget cuts.

Or may be they went a step ahead and used cheap Chinese spares.

 

[gambit]

The world's most powerful military is being laughed at by peoples from countries whose militaries are rated far second at best.

 

[faithfulguy]

Or may be they went a step ahead and used cheap Chinese spares.

It could be. As Indians requested the spares in large quantities to haggle down the price but than only want them in small numbers. So Chinese decide to give Indian customers cheap quality stuff. Because the Indian customers are cheap and thought that they got a good deal. But they got screwed at the end. In this case, it’s US that suffered. Like US called centers located in India. It’s the customers that suffer.

 

[LeGenD]

Keeping in view the sheer size of their force and deployments across the world, this isn't much of a news.

Accidents happen; yellow journalism.

 

[TaiShang]

That's normal. The US is the greater force for good. That's why the planes fall down.

 

[Pyara9]

Fake news guys. With their fleet size these few accident's don't mean a thing. Still A+ compared to the rest of the world.

 

[oprih]

made in america

 

[Divergent]

What goes up must come down.

 

[Three_Kingdoms]

The world's most powerful military is being laughed at by peoples from countries whose militaries are rated far second at best.

Why haven't the world's "most powerful military" won any war in which the "second at best" military took a significant part after WW2? You are trolling professionally -again to win cheap "thanks" from the Indian cheerleaders, arent you? LOL!

"Make America Great Again" LOL LOL!