US Navy’s Double-Tap Self-Crash: Sea Hawk Meets Super Hornet
In a 'routine operation' that somehow sounds like a plot twist from a Navy vs. Gravity reality show, the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the 'Battle Cats' squadron took an involuntary plunge into the South China Sea at 2:45pm Sunday, courtesy of the USS Nimitz. Just 30 minutes later, the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter, repping the 'Fighting Redcocks' of VFA-22, decided to crash the same party at 3:15pm — also departing from our favorite aircraft carrier, Nimitz. Both crews (three for the Hawk, two for the Hornet) managed to eject safely and were fished out by Carrier Strike Group 11, who must be tired of saving pilots from their own machines. Investigations are ongoing, because even your toaster gets a manual before it fries your bread.
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Only the US Navy can turn the South China Sea into their personal crash test site within 30 minutes. 'Routine operations' or just a bad case of 'battle cat-flap and redcock malfunction'? Either way, these pilots deserve medals for ejecting faster than my WiFi drops.
So the Battle Cats and Fighting Redcocks went swimming without asking the sea? Only the US Navy can stage a 30-minute double crash like a bad buddy cop movie where gravity and physics say no.
The USS Nimitz: proving once again that 'routine operations' means testing how fast you can fall from the sky and still live to complain about paperwork.
Source: Axios | Published: 10/27/2025 | Author: Rebecca Falconer
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