F-35 Stealth Fighter Jet is missing

[Bekeart]

F-35 Stealth Fighter Jet is missing


US Military to Public: Help Us Find Our Stealth Fighter Jet
F-35 is missing after pilot safely ejected over South Carolina

US Military to Public: Help Us Find Our Stealth Fighter Jet

Bekeart

 

[s&wchad]

According to the article, they suspect it's in a lake. I'm glad the pilot will be OK, but that's $82.4 million down the hatch!

 

[BAM-BAM]

Woops!

 

[petepeterson]

You would think they'd have some type of GPS or "findaphone" type device on those. Maybe that was too expensive of an add?

 

[fordson]

It's stealth …. how is anyone gonna see it, let alone find it………

 

[OFT II]

wow!!! Can you imagine a Statement of Charges for 82.4 million dollars?

 

[jeffrefrig]

You would think they'd have some type of GPS or "findaphone" type device on those. Maybe that was too expensive of an add?

That was an extra with the SLT package. I just hope the plane went Eastward. That's kinda embarrassing.

 

[glenwolde]

...and a bunch of Chinese tourists decide they want to go fishing...

 

[Hair Trigger]

If the plane fell into either Lake Moultrie or Lake Marion it shouldn't be that hard to locate once a plume of leaking jet fuel surfaces. Average depth of both lakes is only 13-18 feet, with the original Santee River channels going to about 75 feet. They both have a relatively large surface area, though, so it could take a while if nobody witnessed the jet going down.

If you're a boater on either lake, a depth finder is pretty much mandatory. There are places where the water is shallow enough to bottom the outdrive, lots of rotting stumps and vegetation, too.

 

[CH4]

If I find it, I am using it for trading stock at the next gun show. Probably won't get as much without the ejection seat.

Can't believe nobody saw it or radar didn't have it's last location. It's not like it disappeared over the southern Indian Ocean.

 

[ladder13]

Waterproof AirTags.

 

[Telecaster]

If it flew on autopilot till it ran out of fuel, there'd be no plume of jet fuel in the water.

I wonder why the pilot ejected? A wasp in the cockpit?

 

[yeti]

Sounds like total electrical failure. Glad pilot out, but gonna have some splaining to do.

AS Glenwolde said, Chinese "tourists" will suddenly be going fishing.

 

[Retired W4]

I would think it would have had it's transponder on while over CONUS. Redundancy in that thing is off the chart for total electrical failure. I'll bet the pilot knows where it's at. Time will tell.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Finders keepers?

 

[NYlakesider]

If I find it, I am using it for trading stock at the next gun show. Probably won't get as much without the ejection seat.

Can't believe nobody saw it or radar didn't have it's last location. It's not like it disappeared over the southern Indian Ocean.

I think that is the official story. The real truth possibly will come out!

 

[ladder13]

Latest news, balloon seen floating across the Pacific headed East.

 

[22lrfan]

Latest news, balloon seen floating across the Pacific headed East.

Maybe they've asked for Chinese help in locating it.

 

[petepeterson]

Sounds like total electrical failure. Glad pilot out, but gonna have some splaining to do.

AS Glenwolde said, Chinese "tourists" will suddenly be going fishing.

I doubt there's anything on those that the Chinese aren't intimately familiar with....

 

[Xfuzz]

They will advise were it is/was after recovery which
is likely underway....maybe ..