Those of you who are regular "All Seahawk" CAD hazrep readers might have read this...but while doing an ammo crossdeck between a CVN and an AE we went to pick a 6 pack of sparrows. When we picked the load it fouled (one of the legs came off the box), so we set it back down. Once the pendant was released from my helo, the box slid off the round down of the carrier and straight to the bottom of the ocean.
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Air-to-Air Missile performance (including Blue on Blue)
- Thread starter HeyJoe
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Don't feel bad, my crew had a ALQ-99 jettisoned for us over the side. There's your instant class A.
Ouch, plenty of Sparrows out there (even more we can borrow from USAF if we et into a shooting match), but ALQ-99s.....not so many. So who gets to do the JAG(s)?
Ship (TR) got to do the whole thing since we were chained to their deck. An improperly spotted F/A-18 exhaust on the pylon cooked th CAD off. Handler got the blame.
phrogpilot73
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I feel both your pain... My first deployment, a LITENING pod fell over board... We were still answering questions about it 2 years later...
Early AMRAAMs approached cost of Phoenix before production ramped up and they got serious improvements in manufacturing process.
el douge
This one time at band camp...
Ya I was just surprised by the high cost of both the AIM-9's and the Phoenix missiles...crazy! Thanks Joe.
I've just got this mental image of everyone watching it fall over board, then suddenly everyone points their finger at the guilty party.
About right. Well, that and the blistered paint on the pylon and six feet of catwalk that was gone after 1000 lbs of pod hit it.
Damn I didn't know those pods weighed that much. I can't imagine how many times and by how many different people that man must have been yelled at by.
Yup. 1000lbs for the pods, 2200lbs for a full drop. 3 pods, 2 drops, full bag of gas == one 56,800lb Prowler. And that's not even MGW, which is 61,500lbs!
When I was at my old unit we launched a two ship flight of F-16's with two 370gal Tanks, and two TER's loaded with BDU-33's (not sure if they have the same name in the Navy). When the planes came back for recovery one of them was totally clean. Turns out there was some computer glitch and when the pilot pickled a single drop it really emergency jettisoned everything.
Wasn't a really pricey mishap (the TER's were the most expensive part) but I can only imagine what went through the pilots head the moment everything came off his wings!
Wasn't a really pricey mishap (the TER's were the most expensive part) but I can only imagine what went through the pilots head the moment everything came off his wings!
Yeaaaah... right.
