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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: Libertas on December 05, 2016, 08:40:12 AM

Title: If carrier operations were easy...everybody would be doing it
Post by: Libertas on December 05, 2016, 08:40:12 AM

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-05/russian-su-33-fighter-jet-crashes-while-landing-kuznetsov-aircraft-carrier-syria (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-05/russian-su-33-fighter-jet-crashes-while-landing-kuznetsov-aircraft-carrier-syria)

Even US naval aviators screw up now and then...but good weather and missed wire...seems somebody forgot to hit the afterburner on touchdown and went into the drink...

And the earlier loss seems to indicate their in-flight refueling capacity is not very good...or present...