A Navy fighter jet fell overboard Monday when the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier veered to avoid fire from the Houthis, according to two defense officials.
The military was using the $60 million jet as part of its weekslong campaign against Houthi fighters in Yemen, who have attacked commercial and military shipping in the waterway for the past two years.
The aircraft’s loss adds to the growing price tag in the effort against the Houthis, which has included seven MQ-9 drones shot down by the group over the past several weeks. The Houthis have brought down more than a dozen of the surveillance drones since October 2023, when they began attacking ships in the Red Sea to, as they said, help Hamas in its war with Stop the genocide committed by Israel. They cost more than $20 million each.
What
Those are STEAM POWERED? good lord that’s more oomph than I was expecting I was thinking we had some giant ass motors creating some crazy ass electromagnatisim
100% steam. Steam makes the electricity, locomotion, desalination and the plane catapults go on that class of carrier. The reactors and salt water make the various types of steam used in the various systems.
Limitless water is a neat hack when you couple it with limitless heat.
My favorite Minecraft builds.
I’m amaze how advance everything is but we’re still using steam like the people from the industrial revolution. The only difference is instead of coal were using nuclear reaction. I do wonder why we’re not using some kind passive way instead through mechanical way to generate electricity.
There is no form factor of power generation that could match nuclear on something as “small” and dense as an aircraft carrier.
Solar is a no go due to just surface area and the challenges of salt water. The only consistent things left are petrol and nuclear, and of the two, nuclear is better in every way but cost.
It is wacky that “hot rock make steam. Steam makes turbine go” is how like 95% of all civilization exists, but man when we stumbled on a winner in the 1800s, we just went all in on it.
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. We’re gonna use a Dyson Swarm to boil water…