Latest news (Fox) indicate that it wasn't CIWS, but SM-2s fired at two F/A-18s. The second aircraft was able to avoid the missile. Those two aicrew are lucky to be alive.
Latest news (Fox) indicate that it wasn't CIWS, but SM-2s fired at two F/A-18s. The second aircraft was able to avoid the missile. Those two aicrew are lucky to be alive.
There was a podcast this morning (that I have lost track of on youtube…grrr) that indicated that the F-18 that got smoked was on approach to recovery and the LSO witnessed the whole thing as Gettysburg launched two birds at them from 10NM astern.
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