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Have You Seen This F-35?
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2023-09-19 at 1:07 PM UTCProbably lost at sea, some Russian trawler winching it up as we speak. lol
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2023-09-19 at 3:06 PM UTCProbably sold to the Chinese by someone in the upper echelons "Oh we lost it"
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2023-09-19 at 11:02 PM UTC
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2023-09-21 at 11:55 AM UTChttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/questions-mount-us-fighter-jet-went-missing-rcna105876
https://archive.is/p6DcD
the crash site was found 24 hours later:The F-35B Lightning II jet, manufactured by Lockheed Martin and operated by the Marine Corps since 2015, took off from Joint Base Charleston on Sunday afternoon. It was one of two planes involved in a routine training flight, Capt. Joe Leitner, spokesperson for the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, told reporters, according to The Post and Courier.
Just before 2 p.m., one of the pilots ejected, parachuting into a home's backyard in Charleston, two defense officials said. The pilot, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
After 5 p.m., Joint Base Charleston posted on social media that a "pilot ejected safely" following an afternoon "mishap" involving an F-35. Officials said they were focusing on a pair of lakes north of the base.
"If you have any information on the whereabouts of the F-35, please call our Base Defense Operations Center," officials wrote.
They launched an intense hunt for the jet, but it wasn't until almost 6:30 p.m. Monday when the base announced that law enforcement had located a debris field in Williamsburg County, a rural stretch about a two-hour drive northeast of the base.
it was also an F-35B meaning it was the vertical landing model. apparently the F-35B also has an 'auto-eject' function, and they haven't yet released why the pilot ejected in the first place so it's possible the plane malfunctioned and kicked him out. LOL.The F-35B is unique compared to other models, said Dan Grazier, a senior defense policy fellow at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit federal watchdog.
"The F-35B has an auto-eject function," he said. "I'm curious to know if it ejected him involuntarily."
it doesn't explain why the plane was untrackable afterwards though.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/f-35-pilot-ejected-over-south-carolina-due-to-bad-weather/
https://archive.is/LkuIJ
this one cites a leaked emergency call where responders claim the pilot had to eject due to 'weather':“He’s unsure of where his plane crashed, said he just lost it in the weather,” a voice can be heard saying of the pilot on a Charleston County Emergency Medical Services call posted Tuesday by a meteorologist.
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2023-09-21 at 12:06 PM UTCoh my mistake, the second article was worded strangely, it means he lost sight of the plane after ejecting, not that he ejected because of visibility.
It's my understanding military jets operating over US airspace have the lead plane run its transponder. The reason they only run one is the two jets fly so close together, two transponders on would be confusing to look at on ATC screen and traffic radar in nearby planes.
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2023-09-21 at 12:12 PM UTCYou'd think after an ejection a plane would phone home, for obvious reasons.
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2023-09-21 at 12:14 PM UTCI have no idea why they'd be flying with transponders off on a training mission over the US but if it's true that only one plane in a formation leaves it on that starts to explain that part at least. the transponder cannot be the only tracker on the plane though
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2023-09-21 at 12:33 PM UTCDon't know how they do things but we turned off anything that transmits during war games, kind of defeats the purpose of a submarine if all they have to do is track the transmitter.
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2023-09-26 at 4:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump
Don't really buy it, but hilarious if true.
There were a crew blasting electrical infrastructure in the Pacific North West with rifles recently too. Must have been antifa, cos it never really got hyped.
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2023-09-26 at 4:21 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2023-09-26 at 4:24 PM UTCHe has high level access to the DoD command, but can’t even tell the gender of the pilot? Maybe because that info wasn’t public yet? I mean come on
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2023-09-26 at 4:27 PM UTCits hard when women have penises and men are getting pregnant all the time.
