A U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet was crash landed in Bahrain after flying off USS Nimitz, a deployed aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. This comes after a U.S. Navy fighter jet squadron was grounded aboard USS George HW Bush in July due to problems with the jets. In a previously unreported episode, for the first time in the three-year-old war against ISIS, a U.S. Navy fighter squadron was grounded for a week aboard the USS George H.W. Currently, about 70 percent of Marine Corps F-18s can’t fly. Budget cuts and the delay of the Joint Strike Fighter forced the Marine Corps and Navy to continue flying them.

Source: Fox News August 12, 2017 13:41 UTC