USS Gettysburg accidentally shot down friendly F/A-18F Super Hornet today. Both pilots ejected and were recovered, one sustaining minor injuries.
USS Gettysburg accidentally shot down friendly F/A-18F Super Hornet today. Both pilots ejected and were recovered, one sustaining minor injuries.
You should read about USS William D Porter, this F18 story isn’t even close to the history of that fletcher class. At one point it fired a live torpedo at the Iowa with roosevelt on board.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/story-uss-william-d-porter-wwiis-most-unlucky-destroyer-209643
Imagine killing your beloved president in the middle of the war. It would be the most embarrassing recognition on you, for the nation, and to the president himself being killed by friendly fire.
I don’t really care much about legacy, but I’d really rather whatever legacy I leave not be a wikipedia article about how incredibly stupid I was in causing a preventable national tradegy…