IF they had detonated, there would be four 30 to 50 foot craters which would have destroyed most of the fragile, UN Designated World Heritage site! What a tragedy for Mankind!
After all, it is such a small place.
/sarc
“The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometers or 132,973 sq miles.”
Seriously, I don’t like getting bombed any more than the next guy, but accidents do happen. Anyone know the current Navy policy on returning to the carrier with ordnance? I assume that it is to dump all.
if they cant land with why were they armed with it in the first place?
Are you saying the US dumps hundreds of thousands of expensive bombs and missiles in the ocean every year for no ggood reason?