Military experts help me understand,

[Reasoned]

how do we “lose” an $80 million fighter jet for 24hrs? Don’t those carry some sort of homing beacon or tracker so we can locate it, or at least followed by ground control on radar?

Debris Found in South Carolina After Search for Missing F-35 Aircraft

Military officials located a debris field in South Carolina one day after a Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet went missing.

www.breitbart.com

 

[BamaFan1137]

I'm sure they have one. But I'm sure they're usually turned off as it is a stealthy fighter.

 

[IrishPokerDog]

The transponder was reported to not be working for some reason....part of the investigation. There’s a pall of weirdness about this episode..... pretty sure the pilot has some ‘splaining to do

 

[HONKifUvCOACHED4BAMA]

I thought they found it?

 

[IrishPokerDog]

I thought they found it?

They did - but it took folk on the ground to find it for the DoD, because the transponder wasn’t sending

 

[hokiemokie]

I wonder if it was in such terrible condition that the pilot had to eject then why did it fly so damn far before impacting the earth ?

 

[GwinnettDawg]

Im sorry but there is only one expert on this board. About everything.

 

[HONKifUvCOACHED4BAMA]

Im sorry but there is only one expert on this board. About everything.

Thanks, Snoop. I’ll take it from here.

The plane got hacked.

 

[Reasoned]

The transponder was reported to not be working for some reason....part of the investigation. There’s a pall of weirdness about this episode..... pretty sure the pilot has some ‘splaining to do

Agreed, just doesn’t seem to add up….. but figured an $80M plane would still be covered under 5yr 50,000 mile warranty

 

[hokiemokie]

They did - but it took folk on the ground to find it for the DoD, because the transponder wasn’t sending

Pappy boyington would have rode that bitch to the ground

 

[GwinnettDawg]

Agreed, just doesn’t seem to add up….. but figured an $80M plane would still be covered under 5yr 50,000 mile warranty

You know it loses half its value as soon as you fly it off the lot.

 

[dhetiger]

Pappy boyington would have rode that bitch to the ground

Black Sheep he was

 

[Sanctions Stand]

how do we “lose” an $80 million fighter jet for 24hrs? Don’t those carry some sort of homing beacon or tracker so we can locate it, or at least followed by ground control on radar?

Debris Found in South Carolina After Search for Missing F-35 Aircraft

Military officials located a debris field in South Carolina one day after a Marine F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet went missing.

www.breitbart.com

agree... hell I have an air tag on my car keys, easy fix

also... what about failover redundancy? I mean on an $80M asset you should have a plan b and c or at least something better than asking South Carolina farmers if they have seen plane go down

 

[billywayneluck]

agree... hell I have an air tag on my car keys, easy fix

also... what about failover redundancy? I mean on an $80M asset you should have a plan b and c or at least something better than asking South Carolina farmers if they have seen plane go down

They needed to announce their preferred pronouns before engaging in a search.

Maybe that’s why the plane went down too. Pronoun mismatch

 

[Sanctions Stand]

Listen to the 911 call from the man that had the ejected pilot land in his backyard.

 

[BamaFan1137]

Listen to the 911 call from the man that had the ejected pilot land in his backyard.

View embedded media

That dispatcher is truly a genius.

 

[Reasoned]

That dispatcher is truly a genius.

Yeah, hopefully not a Bama grad……..or Iowa.

 

[BamaFan1137]

Yeah, hopefully not a Bama grad……..or Iowa.

Some of them are fantastic...born for that shit. Others are like this chick.

 

[Sanctions Stand]

That dispatcher is truly a genius.

dispatcher: "How far did you fall?"

pilot: "Oooooh I dunno... maybe 2000 feet?"

that had me rolling

 

[BamaFan1137]

dispatcher: "How far did you fall?"

pilot: "Oooooh I dunno... maybe 2000 feet?"

that had me rolling

I was hoping he'd say, "All the way to the ground???"

 

[dhetiger]

I was hoping he'd say, "All the way to the ground???"

That's sort of like Ron White's bit on the small airplane losing one of its engines.

"How far can one engine take us?"

"All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is convenient because that's where we're headed."

 

[BamaFan1137]

That's sort of like Ron White's bit on the small airplane losing one of its engines.

"How far can one engine take us?"

"All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is convenient because that's where we're headed."

"Bet we beat the ambulances by about 30 minutes."

 

[HONKifUvCOACHED4BAMA]