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Venezuela Sent 8 Fighters to Attack a US Carrier — Huge Mistake

Venezuela launched eight fighters armed with anti-ship missiles to attack USS Gerald R. Ford—America's newest nuclear aircraft carrier conducting freedom of navigation operations in international waters 70 nautical miles off the Venezuelan coast. In four minutes and twelve seconds, all eight Venezuelan aircraft were destroyed by beyond-visual-range missiles before they could fire a single weapon. Six Su-30 Flankers and two F-16 Fighting Falcons—representing thirty percent of Venezuela's operational fighter inventory—became burning wreckage scattered across twenty nautical miles of Caribbean Sea. Cost to Venezuela: $400 million in destroyed aircraft plus irreplaceable pilot training. Cost to America: $36 million in missiles and fuel. Loss ratio: 11 to 1. Zero American casualties, zero damage to the carrier, all eight Venezuelan pilots rescued by US Navy helicopters. This is the complete breakdown of how Venezuela's most ambitious military operation in decades became a catastrophic strategic failure: why attacking modern carrier strike groups with regional air forces is mathematically impossible, how E-2D Hawkeye radar detected Venezuelan fighters before they crossed into international airspace, why sixteen F/A-18 Super Hornets launched in under eight minutes destroyed the entire attack formation at seventy nautical miles range, and the five catastrophic miscalculations that turned Venezuela's carefully planned operation into the most one-sided aerial engagement in modern naval warfare. From launch to annihilation: how Venezuelan military command spent three weeks planning an operation that survived four minutes against twenty-first century American naval aviation, and why this engagement proved what naval strategists have known for decades—you do not attack aircraft carriers.