David Burke

And those aircrew, exactly the way they're trained, did exactly what we've all prepared for.

Like I said, it's a double-edged sword, but they executed flawlessly once that thing happened.

Yeah, Georgia, that's a great question.

And it is seconds.

Obviously, I can't replicate in my mind exactly what that's like.

But to be in a friendly aircraft over essentially, in that case, friendly territory post-mission, the likelihood in their mind that they were at risk was probably very low because

So I would assume that that thing cascaded out of control in a matter of seconds to the point that they're hit.

The aircraft is no longer flyable.

They're very low to the ground.

And so that's seconds before they're pulling the ejection handle and making the decision to get out of those airplanes.

That must have happened very, very quickly.

Yeah, absolutely.

When you have a two-seat aircraft like the F-15E, a pilot and a WIZO, it's very, very likely the mode that they have set as either of the pilot or the backseat or either the pilot or the WIZO, when they eject, both air crew exit at the same time.

Yeah, listen, I don't ever want to say that we are in a no-risk environment.

War comes with risks.

Aviation can be inherently risky.

That said, the Iranians are going to have a really hard time putting up a robust air defense system.

And that doesn't mean that our aircraft are flying with impunity.

There's always risk.

Man-portable air defense systems, relatively small mobile things to shoot, those always exist.