F-130's? Umm no.

Could be worse, destroyers could be 300 yards off the coast armed with bgm (TOW) missiles.

They didn't get a single thing right about anything military in the 2-part Civil War episode. This is coming from someone who started out his military career as an F-4 Phantom Weapons Systems Officer in the Air Force and then switching over to the Army as an Armor/Cavalry officer and retiring after 29 years and three wars in uniform. Nothing about the two fighter aircraft made any sense. The whole episode is FUBAR with no basis in reality.

Okay, the F/A-18 is one generation later than what I flew, but I'm pretty sure that despite many computer-controlled aspects of the aircraft, they haven't built in a system with which an outside computer hacker could release any weapon. The pilot still has to physically hit the Weapons Select switch, flip the Safe/Arm switch and then physically squeeze the trigger on the joystick. Even if the fighter was a totally fictional "F-130", the US Department of Defense would never procure a combat aircraft with a computer-controlled hackable system where an outsider can cause the aircraft to launch a weapon for exactly that reason.

Air-to-air missiles have a minimum range at which they can be fired so that the warhead can arm without blowing up in the face of the launching aircraft. At the range at which the lieutenant commander's plane fired at her wingman, the missile either would have hit the wingman as a dud and gone ballistic after impact, or have gone in front of the wingman and blown up somewhere in front of him. If it had detonated in real life at the range it was depicted on the show, both planes would have blown up.

Nothing in the aircraft's flight control system can interfere with the ejection system. Both pilots could have punched out at anytime. (I can understand their staying with the aircraft in case control somehow returned to them, so I won't push that point any further.)

Letting the fighter's fuel burn down to empty to flame out the engines, so that Team Scorpion could reboot the computer remotely, makes absolutely no sense. The electronics will keep running on the battery bus as long as the batteries have any power. And then restarting the engines after the reboot and pulling out of a 90 degree dive, so she can go on her merry way back to home base? ON WHAT FUEL???

(In real life, I'm sure there's a circuit breaker in the cockpit that could shut off the computers, but then again, they wouldn't need to turn off the engines to do that.)

And then Walter and Paige watch a missile frigate off Los Angeles harbor fire a cruise missile at them, and they have time to run down the hallway, pry open an elevator door and slide down the cable before the missile impacts?

While I was trained at nuclear weapons delivery at the F-4 Replacement Training Unit, I never did so operationally. But I do know enough about nuclear weapons safeguards to know that in ICBM silos and on Ballistic Missile Submarines, a nuclear missile cannot be launched unless the two officers authorized to launch them physically insert and activate their launch keys simultaneously into keyholes that are physically too far apart for one person to do both. No computer hack can override that safeguard.

And last but not least, regarding the supersonic Valkyrie bomber (full nomenclature: North American XB-70 Valkyrie), only two test prototypes were built before production was cancelled. One crashed in a midair collision in 1966 and the single remaining aircraft hasn't flown since it was delivered to the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio in 1969, and has only been moved from one corner of the museum to another. And it certainly couldn't land in some backwoods landing strip in eastern Europe, let alone get refueled, serviced and take off again for a return trip to the USA.

I've said on previous threads that, contrary to the real Walter O'Brien's claims, no validated, statistically-normed IQ test currently in use yields a score above 160 or has been in the last 50 years. (Most of my military service has been in the reserve components, and in my civilian career, I was a psychologist, now also retired in that field, and made my living administering IQ tests.) Any person claiming a specific IQ score number above 160 is full of sh!t, and that includes Walter O'Brien who claims one of 197. If Walter O'Brien, who maintains the title of Executive Producer of this series, had an IQ anywhere a fraction as close toward the right end of the bell curve from the mean, he would have figured a way to come up with a more realistic, plausible plot than the idiotic drivel the writers produced in his name.

No, the show can't even get one thing right. They don't even try.

Sigh