Military Accidents and Mishaps

[Holmes85]

Something like this may already exist in terms of specific photos, but I decided to go broader on the subject. I mean, why limit yourself.

[JCR]

The Krivak frigate picture is not an accident, but a deliberate ramming.
Happened during the 1980s when the americans decided to cruise through the straits of Kerch packing ESM gear.

[denneym1]

Info on the B2 pic?

[TR1]

That SLBM one was epic.....

[Jscrilla21]

What the hell happened in that 3rd pic

[Panchito12]

That's not an "accident". That was the intentional ramming of the USS YORKTOWN by a Soviet KRIVAK-class frigate because the Soviets did not want to follow the Law of the Seas' "right of innocent passage" provisions (which the Soviets regularly exercised along US shores without any ramming by our part).

[m.i.t]

Is it not PS work ? Bomb seems too large for even Mk-84.

[Lancero]

There's some videos of the ramming incident

1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SME4w037FgA

2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0w9WJRiSFM

3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DiaDrfRZkI

[Holmes85]

That's not an "accident". That was the intentional ramming of the USS YORKTOWN by a Soviet KRIVAK-class frigate because the Soviets did not want to follow the Law of the Seas' "right of innocent passage" provisions (which the Soviets regularly exercised along US shores without any ramming by our part).

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize that.

Here are some other pic I have.







Something tells me that isn't aerodynamically safe.

I didn't do the editing.





Honestly, I have no bloody clue as to what's going on here in the photo above. But it's just too interesting to ignore.

[Zoomie]

Here are some other pic I have.

That mishap was the fault of the stupid truck driver.

[Eagle The Lightning]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKy0FkkuGpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpDEO6sPdJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeJmIXbxME

[Holmes85]

Info on the B2 pic?

http://www.strategypage.com/military...spx?comments=Y

B-2 Crash at Andersen Air Force Base Accident Report
6/6/2008 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Distorted data introduced by a B-2 Spirit's air data system skewed information entering the bomber's flight control computers ultimately causing the crash of the aircraft on takeoff at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 23, according to an Air Combat Command accident investigation report released June 5.

Moisture in the aircraft's Port Transducer Units during air data calibration distorted the information in the bomber's air data system, causing the flight control computers to calculate an inaccurate airspeed and a negative angle of attack upon takeoff. According to the report, this caused an, "uncommanded 30 degree nose-high pitch-up on takeoff, causing the aircraft to stall and its subsequent crash."

Moisture in the PTUs, inaccurate airspeed, a negative AOA calculation and low altitude/low airspeed are substantially contributing factors in this mishap. Another substantially contributing factor was the ineffective communication of critical information regarding a suggested technique of turning on pitot heat in order to remove moisture from the PTUs prior to performing an air data calibration.

The pilot received minor injuries, and the co-pilot received a spinal compression fracture during ejection. He was treated at Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii, and released. The aircraft was assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.
The cost of the lost aircraft is about $1.4 billion.

[Elbs]

USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) after a collision with HMAS Melbourne, June of 1969.

[Addled]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkE-cCJ--Cc

[Elbs]

Mid-air between two Hornets from VFC-12 out of Oceana, in April '96.


Nose gear collapse on another poor Hornet


F-14 took an AIM-9 to the nose