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This SUV Was Blown Away By An F-16

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Imagine you’re driving along with your pal. It’s night time. Maybe you guys are going bowling, or maybe you’re going to drive over to his house to just hang out. You’ve probably got a pretty quiet night planned. And then a military fighter jet starts shooting at you.

Last April 9th, at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, two soldiers were driving a rented SUV about five kilometers from the part of the range used for live firing. It was at night, and an F-16 that thought it was firing at something in the live fire area, lit up the SUV instead. Only 70 20mm rounds were fired.

Fortunately, the two people in the SUV were only injured (both from flying glass, the passenger got a dislocated shoulder as he rapidly exited the vehicle when it quickly turned off the road and stopped.) The investigation of how this happened has not been completed.

That’ll teach that asshole not to put one of those yellow “support our troops” stickers on his car.

10 Responses to "This SUV Was Blown Away By An F-16"

  1. Jeremy says:

    talk about a shitty moment, literally.

  2. morty says:

    the air force has nothing but great press nowadays… even though some public affairs lady got a bronze star for ‘quickly and diligently relaying messages to the press’

  3. yea says:

    did the SUV have a canadian flag on it or something? What? Too soon?

  4. KTFO says:

    Hey buddy I hope you got the insurance.

  5. topgun says:

    Just another black eye on the U.S. auto industry….Big SUV couldn’t even take a couple shots from a 20mm cannon…..just don’t build em like they used to..

  6. Anonymous says:

    literally?

  7. arodz says:

    with todays gas prices thats reasonable!! blow’em all up

  8. Blogengeezer says:

    Pretty accurate night, lot different than the old WWII crosshairs. Now if only the pilot had ‘led’ his target a little more, the outcome would have been a little different. Don’t drive anywhere near target ranges, night or day. That’s why they are called ‘Target Ranges’. Drove the desolate hwy west of Clovis NM for many long years. Many times the terrain following, ‘fighter jocks’ thundered the roof on the truck while screaming in for a downrange target. Sure woke up a driver fast.

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