First Air-to-air Victory by a US Female Fighter Pilot

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed.

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IDK, kinda hard to get excited about a victory against something that is unmanned and doesn't shoot back.

#1 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2024-07-22 03:52 PM | Reply

Luke won his first lightsaber battle on the Millenium Falcon shortly after leaving Tatooine

#2 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-07-22 03:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

A drone? Seriously?

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2024-07-22 04:11 PM | Reply

A drone? Seriously?
#3 | Posted by Tor

Still slightly more impressive than the F-22's only confirmed kill (that Chinese balloon www.businessinsider.com ).

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-22 04:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's a reach.

#5 | Posted by homerj at 2024-07-23 04:59 PM | Reply

Anti-drone combat will be as serious as manned combat in the near future if things go hot.

Current iterations of UAVs may be air to ground, but air to air UAVs aren't too far in the future of the platform technology.

#6 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-07-23 05:11 PM | Reply

After which she posed the question of "who's the ----- now?"

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2024-07-23 05:16 PM | Reply

Chick blows up 3rd world country drone protesting ongoing genocide

#8 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-07-23 05:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why is gender even an issue?. I get sick of Dems who are always obsessed with creating BS instead of simply making society undivided.

#9 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-23 07:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I assume you're saying this as a privileged white male who's taken advantage of his artificially enhanced societal role.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-23 08:20 PM | Reply

I get sick of Dems who are always obsessed with creating BS

The "Dems" in this case being the US Navy. If the Navy are Dems the "Civil War" ain't gonna go well for the goobers.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-07-23 09:07 PM | Reply

#6 the transformation of warfare in Ukraine by drones is probably the scariest thing about it IMO.

I've been reading about it happening and they've shown the predictions to be workable with scary results.

I don't remember the channel but I saw this interesting video on YouTube where a Ukraine vet described drone warfare. How you learn to differentiate the sound of yours vs theirs. Attack vs surveillance. Countermeasures and how they were building cover to fool them.

He then reenacted a scouting mission they went on where his team was stalked by a drone and he demonstrated how they evaded them.

Some of it was simple and straight forward. A lot of it was luck of the draw.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2024-07-23 10:00 PM | Reply

instead of simply making society undivided.

#9 | POSTED BY ROBSON

You're a Trumper.

Doesn't matter what Dems do, you'll make sure it divides you from them.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2024-07-23 10:02 PM | Reply

"Why is gender even an issue?"

It's NOT an issue for liberals and democrats.

You will have to ask the magaGOPs and their white Christian nationalist backers that question.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-24 11:51 AM | Reply

Why is gender even an issue?. I get sick of Dems who are always obsessed with creating BS instead of simply making society undivided.

#9 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Wow, relax. It's just interesting trivia. What the heck do Democrats have to do with this? It was a Navy press release.

#15 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-07-24 12:45 PM | Reply

its like she shot down a biplane armed with a stick of dynamite and a tompson machine gun.

#16 | Posted by Tor at 2024-07-24 03:27 PM | Reply

It would have been a lot cooler if she would have smoked the terrorists who launched the drones. AIM-9X isn't going to miss.

#17 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-07-24 03:39 PM | Reply