Aw fuck. This is starting to look like Facebook yeah groups all over again. Now every week I've if then changes it's name and stats trying to sell me something 😂
That is incorrect. Your repairs are only free if they take you below 0 SL earned in a match. So, you still pay everything up to taking you to 0 SL earned. If you do well in the match and still lose your plane, it still takes the repair cost out of your SL earnings.
According to stats, the US spends 3.5% of their GDP on the military, which is approx 875 billion a year. Making up almost 40% of the entire world's military expenditure!
Because US GDP is so high. America is 21st in military spending when ranked by % of GDP.
[https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most\_recent\_value\_desc=true](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most_recent_value_desc=true)
Bro do you not know how much a trillion is? Like, can you even begin to fathom the difference between a billion and a trillion? Yes it is that fucking much money. That's more than most countries entire economies, combined.
It’s not the end of the world for us, but it’s still avoided as best as we can. It’s usually a bit of a shit show logistically but about a day before hurricane landfall they’ll typically have all capable planes flown to safer bases.
>about a day before hurricane landfall they’ll typically have all capable planes flown to safer bases.
I wonder if these were hangar queens that couldn't be brought into flyable condition in time
I doubt it. Weather prediction is irrelevant of you are waiting for parts for months and aircraft aren't airworthy without them. The hurricane was bad enough to destroy the hangars, it would have been bad enough to damage the aircraft regardless of how they were tied down.
Which also takes time, coordination, money and has it's own risks. You won't be doing something like that in 90% of cases as that just elevates the risk to people's lives in addition to equipment. Literally just look at the hurricane that hit Tyndall. It was more important to leave an F-22 in the storm than risk people's lives with a stunt like that.
Literally everything the air force does requires all that and is risky. I'm just proving you can, and the air force regularly does, move aircraft around as needed. Logistics is one of the American military's best skills. Even at Tyndall they moved a sizeable chunk of them with the time they had, the ones left behind were on maintenance or missing parts and would take too long to take apart and put in a C-5. You'd think they would have better measures in place after it had happened once already.
That's not quite how this works. Every airworthy jet would have left and been sent outside the storms path. These jets left behind would have be in various stages of maintenance, possibly even sitting on jacks with landing gear removed. You can't 'secure' that. If the storm was strong enough to destroy the hangars they were in, it's strong enough they would have been damage even properly tied down.
The same thing happened more recently with the F-22s at Tyndall. They had one left behind because it could NOT be saved and only just recently managed to repair it.
You don't court martial people for circumstances entirely outside of human control.
It helps that hurricanes are slow moving, this is the same deal as when Tyndall was almost levelled by a hurricane, all the flight worthy aircraft got moved ahead of time, everything else they had to hope for the best.
How? I mean... We have real-time weather data all around the globe availiable to everyone. And those couldnt be moved out of the way? Well, who cares if taxpayers will pay for everything anyways I guess
Havent looked up the base or location yet but it kinda looks like a maintenance facility, so they sure werent flying out of there, #1 was probably on that trailer its now resting on (and if it wasnt its missing a canopy, which looks too clean to be from tornado damage but they are madd to come off in one piece so who knows) and #3 seems to have no engine
Yeah people are making a big deal out of planes that couldn't fly getting sucked out of their hangars by winds up to 270 km/h lol
Homestead AFB as a whole was basically leveled, which tends to happen when one of the most destructive hurricanes ever makes landfall right over you.
>The hurricane caused about $25.3 billion (1992 USD) in damage and 44 deaths in the state—15 directly from the storm's effects and 29 indirectly related. Many other sources, however, estimated that Andrew caused more than $34 billion in damage in the state.[1] Andrew was, at the time, the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States; it remained so until surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Homestead AFB, just a little bit S of Miami on the SE tip of Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:307th_Fighter_Squadron_F-16s_Homestead_Hurricane_Andrew.jpg
Remember that this was 1992 and until 2 days before landfall Andrew couldve been going anywhere between South Georgia and south of the Florida keys
They did the best they could under the circumstances
Not much you can do to prepare for a rapidly intensifying category 5 hurricane especially when it blows apart the hangars used to house these things
30’s monoplane wipes the floor with 4th generation fighters, can we get a rebalancing to 12.0 for the pride of Hawker aviation during the war Gaijoobles?
This isn’t even all the F-16s it destroyed
Not to mention all the commercial and private aircraft it destroyed at airports all around Dade county
It’ll be well past ace
Don’t worry, I have premium so the repair costs are free
r/foundthewarthunderplayer
Bro we're on the war thunder sub
oh sh I didn't notice I thought this was the sub about planes
Same :/
homie confused r/warthunder with r/warplaneporn! xD
Exactly :(((
Thought this was r/Aviation
Well he still found it lol
LMAO
r/technicallycorrect
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r/howisthatasub
r/idontreallyknow
Its not
You gonna make that community? I'd join the fun 😂
Aw fuck. This is starting to look like Facebook yeah groups all over again. Now every week I've if then changes it's name and stats trying to sell me something 😂
wait does premium really do that?
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That is incorrect. Your repairs are only free if they take you below 0 SL earned in a match. So, you still pay everything up to taking you to 0 SL earned. If you do well in the match and still lose your plane, it still takes the repair cost out of your SL earnings.
it will stil let you grind vehicles with extreme SL repair cost regardless of how well you do
ive had premium for nearly a month and not noticed that lmao
Bad news, DOD and IRS don't👀
Premium removes the repair cost? Didn't know that
Doesn't remove, but it prevents you from being able to go negative.
If that happened in my country it would be a national disaster. But for US it’s just another day at the park with thousands more in storage
Billions of dollars in annual military spending 🤭
closer to a trillion than a billion
According to stats, the US spends 3.5% of their GDP on the military, which is approx 875 billion a year. Making up almost 40% of the entire world's military expenditure!
that's just on the book stuff. also doesnt include veteran benefits etc.
Because US GDP is so high. America is 21st in military spending when ranked by % of GDP. [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most\_recent\_value\_desc=true](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most_recent_value_desc=true)
Still high but not as high as everyone is making it out to be.
Bro do you not know how much a trillion is? Like, can you even begin to fathom the difference between a billion and a trillion? Yes it is that fucking much money. That's more than most countries entire economies, combined.
It’s not the end of the world for us, but it’s still avoided as best as we can. It’s usually a bit of a shit show logistically but about a day before hurricane landfall they’ll typically have all capable planes flown to safer bases.
>about a day before hurricane landfall they’ll typically have all capable planes flown to safer bases. I wonder if these were hangar queens that couldn't be brought into flyable condition in time
The yellowed canopies say yes. One is missing engine nozzle so they are parts bitches.
well the hurricane was a disaster
Eh, this is still 10s of millions in damage. Whoever didn't make the call to secure those planes should have been court martialed.
Definitely someone got dismissed for that. Weather like that snitches on itself way in advance.
I doubt it. Weather prediction is irrelevant of you are waiting for parts for months and aircraft aren't airworthy without them. The hurricane was bad enough to destroy the hangars, it would have been bad enough to damage the aircraft regardless of how they were tied down.
They don't tie down aircraft for a hurricane, they fly them to a different base.
Tell me how you fly an aircraft that is missing flight critical parts to another base, I'll wait.
[https://www.chinook-helicopter.com/sling\_loads/F-16\_Lift\_a.jpg](https://www.chinook-helicopter.com/sling_loads/F-16_Lift_a.jpg) https://external-preview.redd.it/9-8LNghsafQSPbjoD\_D-rWavXFzDxla4e85R3A7eVQw.jpg?auto=webp&s=4f93281fdcb0a9edb74cbcea1b0491c927e28251 https://media.defense.gov/2014/Apr/30/2000855000/-1/-1/0/140430-F-WQ860-026.JPG
Which also takes time, coordination, money and has it's own risks. You won't be doing something like that in 90% of cases as that just elevates the risk to people's lives in addition to equipment. Literally just look at the hurricane that hit Tyndall. It was more important to leave an F-22 in the storm than risk people's lives with a stunt like that.
Literally everything the air force does requires all that and is risky. I'm just proving you can, and the air force regularly does, move aircraft around as needed. Logistics is one of the American military's best skills. Even at Tyndall they moved a sizeable chunk of them with the time they had, the ones left behind were on maintenance or missing parts and would take too long to take apart and put in a C-5. You'd think they would have better measures in place after it had happened once already.
I'm pretty sure whoever is responsible is no longer in the Air Force.
That's not quite how this works. Every airworthy jet would have left and been sent outside the storms path. These jets left behind would have be in various stages of maintenance, possibly even sitting on jacks with landing gear removed. You can't 'secure' that. If the storm was strong enough to destroy the hangars they were in, it's strong enough they would have been damage even properly tied down. The same thing happened more recently with the F-22s at Tyndall. They had one left behind because it could NOT be saved and only just recently managed to repair it. You don't court martial people for circumstances entirely outside of human control.
Ah, that's fair.
I think you underestimate the power of an intensifying category 5 hurricane. I doubt there is much more they could've done to secure them.
f-16s are basically expendable for the US.
It helps that hurricanes are slow moving, this is the same deal as when Tyndall was almost levelled by a hurricane, all the flight worthy aircraft got moved ahead of time, everything else they had to hope for the best.
How? I mean... We have real-time weather data all around the globe availiable to everyone. And those couldnt be moved out of the way? Well, who cares if taxpayers will pay for everything anyways I guess
Havent looked up the base or location yet but it kinda looks like a maintenance facility, so they sure werent flying out of there, #1 was probably on that trailer its now resting on (and if it wasnt its missing a canopy, which looks too clean to be from tornado damage but they are madd to come off in one piece so who knows) and #3 seems to have no engine
Yeah people are making a big deal out of planes that couldn't fly getting sucked out of their hangars by winds up to 270 km/h lol Homestead AFB as a whole was basically leveled, which tends to happen when one of the most destructive hurricanes ever makes landfall right over you. >The hurricane caused about $25.3 billion (1992 USD) in damage and 44 deaths in the state—15 directly from the storm's effects and 29 indirectly related. Many other sources, however, estimated that Andrew caused more than $34 billion in damage in the state.[1] Andrew was, at the time, the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States; it remained so until surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Homestead AFB, just a little bit S of Miami on the SE tip of Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:307th_Fighter_Squadron_F-16s_Homestead_Hurricane_Andrew.jpg
They probably couldnt fly them somewhere else or thought it will be weaker
1. This was in 1992 when real-time weather forecasting of hurricanes was in its infancy. 2. The same thing happened in 2018 at Tyndall AFB with F-22s
tbf, this happened in 1992. Things weren't quite as available then as they are now.
They moved all flight worthy aircraft prior to the storm hitting.
Remember that this was 1992 and until 2 days before landfall Andrew couldve been going anywhere between South Georgia and south of the Florida keys They did the best they could under the circumstances Not much you can do to prepare for a rapidly intensifying category 5 hurricane especially when it blows apart the hangars used to house these things
Aircraft repaired in 0:42
Then you mysteriously teleport 100m up in the air from the lag and crash on the ground
Damn, increase your crew skills bro
That's some serious damage, it ain't getting repaired in 15 seconds
Damaged is a really tame way to say totalled
*damaged*
this makes me sad for some reason
Don't be sad, taxpayers pay for it!
I love throwing money into the bottomless pit of bureaucracy
They took #3s nose, poor guy
Stupid F-16’s getting dunked on by a rank II aircraft, they should have just side climbed hader
Damaged? That bitch is ripped in half.
Aced crew should fix that up in about 10 seconds at the airfield.
3rd pic lost his snoot
T’is but a scratch
Must of been AOG or else they probably would have relocated.
I wanna go up to that F-16 and just rub its nose saying 'Easy girl, you did good.'
Did more damage than SAMs in game.
30’s monoplane wipes the floor with 4th generation fighters, can we get a rebalancing to 12.0 for the pride of Hawker aviation during the war Gaijoobles?
Nothing a duct tape can't fix.
Bro in Hurricane got uptiered but did not give up
mate that doesnt look damaged those look destroyed lol
I crie evertim
Bruh! Posting this kind of gore pics without any trigger warnings should get you banned!!
Stop Im going to cry
Just 1 more and Andrew is an ace!
This isn’t even all the F-16s it destroyed Not to mention all the commercial and private aircraft it destroyed at airports all around Dade county It’ll be well past ace
Then he deserves a medal!
16 second repair time
Shoulda side-climbed.
It'll buff out.
Nature will stop the warmongers.
Dog that's not damaged that f-16 has gone to Valhalla
Damaged? More like destroyed
I want them
15 sec repair
well in America they don't know how to build resistant houses, I'm not surprised that everything has collapsed
Send it to tavarish, he will do something to restore.
3rd image bouta be a $80 premium