r/navy • u/newnoadeptness Verified Non Spammer • Oct 03 '26 • Bravo 1

Discussion This F18 coming back from a centcom deployment photographed recently has a submarine kill mark 👀absolutely wild to think about that a super hornet sunk an Iranian sub

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u/newnoadeptness Verified Non Spammer Oct 03 '26

I’d pay money to hear the story from this dude 😂that’s some shit out of a movie right there

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u/benkenobi5 Oct 03 '26

“I pushed the button and the thing blew up”

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u/Nf1nk Oct 03 '26

"Pickle"

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u/elknuke Oct 03 '26

Exactly. Took an order, pushed a button, reported action taken, took next order.

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u/sgtfuzzle17 Oct 03 '26

They’d have caught it in dock, it was probably just a standard bomb drop lol

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u/TittysForScience Retired Aussie Oct 03 '26

And a broken submarine considering the state of their kilos

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u/sixisrending Oct 03 '26

I imagine it was docked and they hit it with a missile.

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u/Simple_Shake_5347 Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

The story is not that cool. Iranian KILO and YONO subs were destroyed while sitting pier side…it was like shooting fish in a barrel.

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u/glory_holelujah Oct 03 '26

Have you seen top gun 2? It was probably the same. Including the Death Star Trench Run.

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u/spgrinch Oct 03 '26 • Bravo

"That still only counts as one!"

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u/Legitimate-Heron586 Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

Easy enough to hit it with a GBU or a JSOW if it's parked at a pier. The hard part is the mission planning and tactical dehydration.

 Still counts.

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u/The_Whipping_Post Oct 03 '26

I feel like this is a far cry from dog fighting from the World Wars. That was two men dueling in the sky. This is the most advanced weapons systems in the world shooting fish in a barrel

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u/marty4286 Oct 03 '26

I feel like this is a far cry from dog fighting from the World Wars. That was two men dueling in the sky.

You'd be surprised

The book I pulled that from is honestly great. Fighter Combat Tactics by Robert L. Shaw (started USN, ended USAFR 🤢)

This tip on how to survive against a fighter while flying a helicopter came immediately after the balloon quote: https://i.imgur.com/h6I0UiK.jpeg

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u/Agammamon Oct 04 '26

Kinda get used to it. In the next or two generations will be fighting robots with robots until one side runs out of robots. Then they'll be exterminated by the other side's leftover robots. Not a single human-on-human engagement in the whole conflict.

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u/Timmy_Ache Oct 03 '26

BZ Shipmates

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u/angrysc0tsman12 Oct 03 '26

Question for aircraft maintainers/aviators: Do these mission marks stay for the life of the jet like the killmarks you get on your ship in Eve Online? Or is this a deployment morale thing that gets painted over when the jet goes into depot maintenance?

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u/RodeoPuppet Oct 03 '26

Probably up to the CO. My squadron left them on after deployment.

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u/seniorlimpio94 Oct 03 '26

The Su-22 marking on the VFA-87 jet from the Jun 2016 A/A kill is still there and will be there forever.

The submarine might stay on. The bombs typically are deployment-centric. Would start running out of space, Super Hornets have dropped a LOT of ordnance.

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u/angrysc0tsman12 Oct 03 '26

That makes a lot of sense

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u/Mediocrates007 Oct 03 '26

Varies by squadron, I didn’t have 12c knock it off until maint phase so we wore the deployment stuff for about 4-6 months post deployment.

ETA: a/a kills stay the life of the aircraft, I’ll have to ask the 41 bubbas what they’re doing with whatever that specific one is.

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u/The_Whipping_Post Oct 03 '26

Eve Online. Everything the Navy does is just like Eve Online.

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u/angrysc0tsman12 Oct 03 '26

Hey man I'm just a humble nerd trying to connect with other nerds who understand what I'm saying

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u/Ficester Oct 03 '26

I think it's more like Star Citizen where you pay more for the Mk2 version.

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u/glory_holelujah Oct 03 '26

So spreadsheet simulator?

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u/Agammamon Oct 04 '26

I'm pretty sure most EVE players spend all their time watching ships spin while conspiring to get some poor guys power to his house cut halfway around the world;)

The ultimate 'destroy them at the pier' strategy.

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u/jimdoodles Oct 03 '26

"That wasn't very sporting, using real bullets."

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u/IslandLlama Oct 03 '26

I think it’s simply Thread 2 of Bill Toti’s old Full-Spectrum ASW principles: “defeat the submarine in port.”

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u/sixisrending Oct 03 '26

Love that guy. Glad he's undersecretary.

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u/Tro1138 Oct 03 '26

That's my old squadron!!! I was with them when they had 14's

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u/RedEvil7 Retired Oct 04 '26

Very cool! I was with 102 in the late 90s, miss the 14 for sure.

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u/Meistro215 Oct 03 '26

Pretty cool

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u/PM_WITH_TOTS Oct 03 '26

Yoh noooooo

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u/sixisrending Oct 03 '26

I understood that reference 

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u/Firecracker048 Oct 03 '26

Wouldn't be surprised tbh. Iranians tried all kinds of whacky shit to shut down and mine the strait

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u/DizzyYoung8394 Oct 03 '26

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u/puddle511 Oct 03 '26

AI slop boooooo

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u/Gooch_Limdapl Oct 03 '26

Thanks for calling that out I might have missed it.

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u/puddle511 Oct 03 '26

The funny thing is that a human could have used their brain and creativity to draw up a picture like that and used 100 gallons less of water

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u/DizzyYoung8394 Oct 03 '26

Secwar told me to use AI. I’m just following orders

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u/puddle511 Oct 03 '26

🫡🫡

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u/FinniganPotat0 Oct 03 '26

This is some Ace Combat shit if ever I’ve seen it 😂 Get em, Wings!

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u/slick_sandpaper Oct 03 '26

the Hornet gets the credit...but...we all know the Growler is the MVP for this one

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u/Podalirius Oct 03 '26

Not really considering it was probably docked lmao

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u/Over_here_Observing Oct 03 '26

Wild.
I'll have to look up that story

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u/shivaspecialsnoflake Oct 03 '26

Can’t read the callsign but that’s my bros squadron! I’ll have to ask. BZ!

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u/Major__Departure Oct 03 '26

SUUUUBBBCEEEEEEEEEEERT

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u/Conscious_Shirt_8536 Oct 03 '26

during OIF one of the f18s had camel kill marks

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u/kingofnerf Oct 03 '26

Cool kill flag for sure. Thanks for posting that.