glad to hear the pilots are OK … but this thought just hit me … what was the cause … Was it pilot error " how close can i get " thing … or Tin foil hats on …a back door way for the administration to get rid of the A10 
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That was a long article to say “we don’t know what, but something undisclosed crashed”.
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Interesting footage and background
One italian Eurofighter was lost few hours ago during an exhibition over the sea.
Plane was performing low, close to the water surface and plunged in, sadly in front of his parents and fiancé.
The pilot didn’t eject according to most the observers.
Oh no. 
Sadly is confirmed…
I don’t fawn over a lot of European aircraft, but I do fawn over the Jag-U-Are
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Arrakis…Dune…Desert Planet.
Though it does seriously look like Shai-Hulud would burst out and eat them on approach.
DCS: Muad’dib
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but what I want is DCS: Ornithopter
Combat Version
Spotter/Leisure Unit
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An Autumn masterpiece …
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! 
You BETTER like pumpkin pie!
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Harrier is hard not to love…
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Let’s not forget…there’s a damn ocean inside that ship!
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What the heck is this creature?
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Oh dear…it should definitely be named Boaty McBoatFace… You can almost see the thought bubbles above the Marines later in the video going “WTF…why did they send us this??”
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2017 West Coast Strike Fighter Ball…love the game intro…! (Is this the first cruise video that actually has operational F-35s in it?)
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I’ve watch The Pentagon Wars yesterday, an excellent movie about scope creep. But it got me wondering, is/was the Bradley really that bad or has it been exaggerated? The movie is based on a book so there’s that.
Even after the troubled development history of the Bradley[5] additional problems occurred after production started as described in a book by Air Force Colonel James G. Burton,[6] which was adapted for the 1998 film The Pentagon Wars starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes. Burton advocated the use of comprehensive live fire tests to be used against fully loaded military vehicles to check for survivability. The Army and Navy agreed and established the Joint Live Fire testing program in 1984.[7] When testing the Bradley, however, disagreements occurred between Burton and the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, which preferred smaller, more controlled, “building block” tests that could be used to improve the databases used to model vehicle survivability, as opposed to full up tests with random shots, which reduce the possibility of bias but produced little useful statistical data.[7] In addition, Burton insisted on a series of “overmatch” tests in which weapon systems would be fired at the Bradley that were known to be able to easily penetrate its armor. Burton saw attempts to avoid such tests as dishonest, while the BRL saw them as wasteful as they already knew the vehicle would fail.[7] The disagreements became so contentious that a Congressional inquiry was set up. As a result of the tests, additional improvements to vehicle survivability were added.
No, but that wouldn’t make an entertaining movie. Bradley is good, strong tonk-ette.
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Also, you beat me to it. Foiled!
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