cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66218437
B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday at Edwards air force base in California’s Mojave Desert, officials say
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/b52-bomber-crash-california-military-base
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Weird. Edwards is an R&D/test base, so maybe they were testing out Microsoft Copilot.
holy fuck you’ve earned the Feral in your name LMFAO
“Has the plane ever bombed any civilians?”
“Including or not including ga-”
Is this ‘gays’??? I can’t think of what also begins with ga.
Gangs
Goddammit what was I thinking lol
Obviously you’ve been so engrossed with pride it was the only thing you could think of. Commendable tbh
Gaza
2 obvious solutions that i couldn’t think of, wtf where was my brain at that moment
For B-52 it is more like “Including or not including Vietnam”.
$84 million unit price based on 2012 dollars, adjusted for inflation, means this was a $124,320,000 incident before considering cost of cleanup, cost of lost ordnance, and life insurance policies for the crews
And before considering that these haven’t been built new for many decades and can’t simply be replaced.
The newest b52 came off the assembly line in October 1962
0.00015x the annual military budget.
If this happened every single day for a year it would still sum up to just 5% of the military budget.
B-52s were made from 1952-1962. But lol look at Russia and their old equipment am i right yall?
“Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a—HOLY FUCK KHAMAS TOOK DOWN A B-52”
It was so broken hearted that it won’t get the chance to vaporize children now that it’s poor heart just gave out!!
Vaxxed?
He can barrel in that baby so low.
You oughtta see it. Its a sight yeah.
A BIG plane, like a 52!
vrooooOOOOM!
Jet exhaust flying ticket to the barn yard!
-500 meters
-300 meters
-Fire reverse thrusters
-boop boop boop boop
-Fuel tanks are on fire!
-Bwaaaaaa
-The Tarkhan is dead
That game is so good. Really wish the dev didn’t get embargoed to fuck
Tanc a Lelek intensifies
Looking at the pictures circulating, there is no way that anyone survived. There’s nothing even remotely resembling a plane left, and I saw someone mention that no chutes were deployed.
Edit: 8 “believed” (definitely) dead
84 million dollars btw (if you don’t count the value of all the publicly funded research that went into it lol)
Wait! I was in the shitter and I missed it. Can they do another one so I can watch?
