(Adobo Chronicles senior geopolitical correspondent BRIAN NEYRA contributed to this report.)

Leave it to the observant eyes of Filipino netizens. They spot details like a thread going through a needle. Such is the case with a U.S. Navy photo posted online. It was an impressive shot of a Navy officer firing a rifle from on board a U.S. vessel.

But something seems to have gone wrong. The (tele)scope of the rifle seemed to have been mounted backwards with the lens still covered with a cap.

Unless, of course, this was a new model that was being fire-tested.