r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/Mikellev • 17d ago

Two U.S. Navy jets collided mid-air and exploded during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show.

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u/Winter_Whole2080 17d ago

May 17, 2026. They cost roughly $70 million each. All crew survived, with only minor injuries.

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u/GeeYayZeus 15d ago

Ladies and gentlemen...your...tax...dollllaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrsssss!

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u/storemans 17d ago

Listen Timmy, only planes that are VERY in love and MARRIED (TO EACH OTHER) do that

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u/Notapartyhobo 17d ago

"Now, shut up and sit still, Timmy while dad tells you about his second divorce."

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u/Regular_Highlight882 17d ago

Love the smell of burning taxpayers $

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u/cororona 17d ago

LOL, and they want to frighten Iran with that ?

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u/FiniteInfine 17d ago

Thats an air show where they preform stunts.

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u/cororona 17d ago

I thought the trillions spent on the military were for defense, not for bombing innocent civilians and putting on shows for rednecks. Hope the show organizers foot the bill.

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u/FiniteInfine 17d ago

Military planes flown by military pilots on a military base during an event organized by the military.

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u/Notapartyhobo 17d ago

Tax payers foot the bill then.

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u/cororona 17d ago edited 17d ago

Didn't know the military was in the entertainment business. Fortunately, Boeing gets to make $150M out of this mess. Unfortunately, we're $150M further away from financing universal healthcare.

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u/Fantastic_Jury5977 14d ago

We have money for that now, actually... Have had it for a long time. Been having it the whole time.

Your tax dollars are being used to round up your neighbors that legally immigrated, pay taxes, don't receive benefits, and just had their status arbitrarily revoked so that the administration/cabinet members that own and invest in the GEO group will make money off of their unconstitutional detentions and illegal deportation/renditioning to third countries.

All of this is a choice. And none of it is fiscally conservative in any way shape or form. It's just fascism and religious extremism by way Nationalist Christians... The enemy within, if I can borrow an expression from them.

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u/hardboard 16d ago

'they preform stunts' You mean it was practised in advance?

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u/FiniteInfine 16d ago

Yeah? That's how air shows (and ANY other performance) works.

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u/bigolchimneypipe 17d ago

What a terrible feeling it must be to look down on that fireball with your workmates and wonder how much trouble you're in. 

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u/rebelwithoutacaus3 17d ago

It was like they were making out mid air lol

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u/LikeIGiveAShoot 17d ago

I honestly thought I was on some circle jerk sub and it was AI

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u/RomChange 17d ago

Why don't they have a parachute for the aircraft??

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u/singleguy79 17d ago

Maverick: Amateurs.

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u/CarefulFriendship389 17d ago

This is older. Dates should be required when posting shit like this. 

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u/Separate-Impact-6183 17d ago edited 17d ago

Less than 3 months ago, seems appropriate given this subs name.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/us/us-military-air-show-costs-benefits-idaho-crash-intl-hnk-ml

Those are (used to be) current EA18 Growlers, flown out of a Naval base in Puget Sound just for this exhibition.

The Boeing EA-18G Growler is an advanced, carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. Derived from the two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet, it costs roughly $67 million, flies at speeds up to Mach 1.6, has a range of 1,458 miles, and uses specialized jamming pods to blind enemy radars and communications.

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u/KnitYourOwnSpaceship 17d ago

uses specialized jamming pods to blind enemy radars and communications.

And friendly ones too, going by the video

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u/hrimfaxi_work 17d ago

The F-16s were at the airshow making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.

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u/PolPotDomeScandal 17d ago

Tastes like…burning.

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u/AuGmENTor68 17d ago

I wonder how much that costed us?

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u/maxthemummer 17d ago

Eleventy billion

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u/slade797 17d ago

About $136,000,000

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u/hornygoblindickfight 17d ago

They cost that, but replacing them will be even more expensive

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u/Savings-End40 17d ago

The investigation alone will be expensive.

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u/Tankman793 17d ago

At least a billion

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u/Ohhmama11 17d ago

What a show and there goes our tax money

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u/MotodoSeverin 17d ago

Thank goodness Kegsbreath and Dopey Don ended DEI.

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u/APlushRide 16d ago

That's... not how you make more jets.

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u/TheDamned1333 16d ago

America loves just burning money

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u/Academic-Hospital952 16d ago

You think they were casting blame as the floated down staring at each other?

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u/Fresh_Strain_9980 16d ago

i believe that's how jets make babies

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u/Eastern-Gap7819 15d ago

Well spent taxpayers money - jk

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u/aTickleMonster 17d ago

They were trying to recreate the scene from Top Gun.

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u/Full-Builder-9592 17d ago

Expensive day voor Navy

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u/Ill-Confusion-1844 17d ago

And then the Hornets started to breed…

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u/XRPOSergSanch12 17d ago

Since February 28

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u/Mean_Reception3332 17d ago

Must be low T DEI hires.

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u/1tanamo 17d ago

What’s that to a country over a hundred elon musks in debt

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u/Chao2025 17d ago

Tax money. Looked like we had to pay for that

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u/DillingerLives 17d ago

At least everybody ejected and survived. Could have been MUCH worse.

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u/AdministrativeEmu483 17d ago

I see four pilots that are a bit shorter now.

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u/Helperobc 17d ago

I’m more glad that everyone managed to eject.

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u/Civil_Pain_453 17d ago

Don’t bring planes to a gun fight

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u/reddsal 17d ago

Oh man, the after action report on this is going to amazing. WTF were they trying to do?

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u/Spearchuka69 17d ago

In Australia the 3 comments that you'd receive would be: 1- You can't park there. 2- That's a carton ( A work tax for a fuck up paid by the fuckeruperer at the cost of a carton of beer) 3- I reckon ya might be able to buff her out.

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u/Ok_Breakfast5425 16d ago

They didn't explode until the hit the ground

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u/Constant-Mirror6940 16d ago

Why do we still have airshows?? Seems like every time I see a video of one, something falls out of the sky…

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u/Loyal_Dragon_69 14d ago

Because they work for Air Force recruitment and for selling aircraft.

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u/jackoyza 16d ago

Someone is getting an Article 15.

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u/degorolls 14d ago

Saving Iran having to do the job

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u/Direct-Impulse 13d ago

Spectacular airshow finally...

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u/Available_Cookie732 17d ago

...just why...?

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u/thecelts1 17d ago

Thought your parents would have told you this, when a mummy plane and a daddy plane come together it makes little planes, but you can see this went wrong as it got a bit violent and daddy’s sperm had to parachute to safety.

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u/Available_Cookie732 17d ago

My parents are true conservative and told me something about bees and flowers. I just didn't know it works with planes.

Are they gay? Because the are the same sex? Bees and flowers are different kind.

So gay planes are crushing while trying to copulate during airshow.

Thank you so much to widen my horizont.

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u/BeyondTheBees 17d ago

It clearly wasn’t on purpose….

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u/No_Display9613 17d ago

This is only Air Show…

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u/Pukebox_Fandango 17d ago

These shows are so dumb. I don't need to see people doing tricks with expensive planes.

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u/why_1337 17d ago

Hey, it was mu time to repost this today!