Looks like the front half is good. So find another plane with a destroyed front half and good back half and weld the two good sections together, and voila!, a new plane! Happens in autobody shops all the time!
Nah, obliterated would mean it's blown all to pieces. Annihilated would mean there's nothing left. Half the plane is intact, so that there is merely hemidemolished.
In addition to the 5 or so KC-135 tanker that are "damaged" or known to have been destroyed, the costs are mounting and now the Navy is forced to configure F-18's for refueling rather than strike or force protection. Hubris is a thing.
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet acts as a "buddy tanker" using an Aerial Refueling System (ARS) pod on the centerline station, enabling it to refuel other aircraft via the probe-and-drogue method. Typical tanker configuration includes the ARS pod, four underwing 480-gallon drop tanks, and full internal fuel, allowing it to transfer roughly 29,000 lbs of fuel
The E/F model is readily configured for tanking. It also is the heavy strike model. Now, they get to chose for their limited number of airframes: tanker config or strike config? Can’t do both.
AutoBat
Well at least the front didn't fall off
StrandedonEarth
Looks like the front half is good. So find another plane with a destroyed front half and good back half and weld the two good sections together, and voila!, a new plane! Happens in autobody shops all the time!
/s, I hope....
roughingupthesuspect
Oblited
TooSoonOldTooLateSmart
Was anyone in it?
Corrodias
Nah, obliterated would mean it's blown all to pieces. Annihilated would mean there's nothing left. Half the plane is intact, so that there is merely hemidemolished.
CouldntCakeLess
Minor dent. Will buff right out.
djhash
roughingupthesuspect
In addition to the 5 or so KC-135 tanker that are "damaged" or known to have been destroyed, the costs are mounting and now the Navy is forced to configure F-18's for refueling rather than strike or force protection. Hubris is a thing.
RetrogradeLlama
I find it suspect that you can configure an F 18 for refueling. What do they do, pull a trailer?
roughingupthesuspect
The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet acts as a "buddy tanker" using an Aerial Refueling System (ARS) pod on the centerline station, enabling it to refuel other aircraft via the probe-and-drogue method. Typical tanker configuration includes the ARS pod, four underwing 480-gallon drop tanks, and full internal fuel, allowing it to transfer roughly 29,000 lbs of fuel
BillBarian
The E/F model is readily configured for tanking. It also is the heavy strike model. Now, they get to chose for their limited number of airframes: tanker config or strike config? Can’t do both.
ShinksAvoHazaar
I dont often wish I had enough artistic talent to draw something but the image you just conjured in mind belongs framed on my wall
NeverEnoughFoxes
It just gets loaded up with extra fuel pods and a refueling drogue like so: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FMUXvd1ZEyM
StrandedonEarth
That jet wash must be a bitch...
Zetor
Remember when the USA did an asymmetrical warfare exercise and then changed the rules because the opponent kept winning? That was awesome. :D
Kiares
Yeah the general that ran the OPFOR quit in protest cause they kept putting white wash guides on him
orp0piru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002#Aftermath
Zetor
Thanks, my google-fu was weak.
orp0piru
LOL i just used your sentence
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=USA+did+an+asymmetrical+warfare+exercise+and+then+changed+the+rules+because+the+opponent+kept+winning