Ludicrously Expensive Fighter Jets Keep Mysteriously Tumbling Off of an Aircraft Carrier

What the hell is going on? Taking a Bath For the third time in six months, an uber-expensive military fighter jet has fallen into the sea from the same Navy warship amid continued American strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels. As CNN reports, a $67 million F/A-18F jet was lost to the Red Sea earlier this week after its pilots failed to brake quickly enough during an attempted landing on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier. In a statement to the outlet, the Navy said that both aviators were safely ejected from the two-seater "Super Hornet" jet, as they're nicknamed, and neither sustained major injuries. Incredibly, this is the second time one of these massively expensive fighter crafts has plunged into the Red Sea from the Truman in less than two weeks — a tremendous waste of money amid this administration's quest to both fatten up the Pentagon's budget while cutting spending on, well, everything else. Watery Death At the end of April, another Super Hornet met its watery demis ... Read full article.