Recently, a US Marine F-35 jet worth US$100 million went missing after the pilot ejected during an incident. The plane continued flying on auto-pilot. The plane's transponder was not working and the plane is stealth, so the Marines couldn't find it. They asked the public for help and have finally located its debris.
Officials find debris from F-35 fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina after pilot ejected
What do you think? How do you lose a military jet?
The USMC screwed up on this one big time, but won't admit it because it makes them look bad, and that violates rule #1 of the corps. There are multiple, likely points of failure on this one that all point toward pilot and/or ground crew error.
They know exactly what happened. That's why the planes had only a two-day stand down rather than "until the issue is resolved" that would normally happen if some unknown, major malfunction occured.
Why does this question remind me of the movie "broken arrow". When they refer to a lost nuclear warhead as a "broken arrow". And a guy says, "I don't know which is more concerning. That you lost a nuclear warhead or that it happens frequently enough that you guys have a name for it".😂
Our tax dollars working at their finest. What more did you expect from the US government?
The military loses everything. This isn't even surprising 😒
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There are some things that we will never know & this was one of them & if the jet continued to fly on autopilot why eject in the first place?
Probably some social media cellphone junkie making another TikTok video.
100 million dollar OOPS!
they knew it got lost, not like missing misplaced, carelessly but radar can't see stealth type jets. it shows how good it hides and this deters china. we could actually DO the fiction in clancy novel bear dragon.
I wouldn't worry avout it. You are living in a country where the government put trillions of dollars on such military toys, they will replace it with another. The pilot survived and that's all what counts
You answered your own question. How do you find a stealth jet that was on auto pilot and lost its transponder that then crashed.
Usually I check in the laundry and under the couch... past that I just give up.
Simple: you start flying it somewhere and then you return to the Yahtzee game you paused on your phone.
Dude, you would be amazed the amount of material that goes missing; countries are big things.
There might be some paperwork involved with this.
It sounds pretty easy to do.
Just put it in stealth mode.
Probably just had to flip a switch or check a box on the computer.
I hate to think haow much stuff "goes missing: from the military.
The same way you lose a Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
You would think that we have a secret decoder ring that could help us find it / track it when bad things happen or the wrong people get their hands on one…..
It’s testament to just how remarkable of a piece of engineering the F-35 is. That is a high speed stealth jet that can dog fight.
The military lost quite a few nuclear warhead, so I'm not surprised
Our toys are a little too good at doing what they do
They found it. But in general it's hard to comprehend how big the country is. If you were to randomly drop an entire skyscraper onto the US, it could be months before you find it without some sort of computer guided assistance.
I heard it was shot down by a UFO
Feels like Firefox only the plane wasn’t stolen out of the hangar.
If we only knew!
Understand there is plenty of things thrown overboard. So it doesn’t need to be reinventoried.
what happen to the transmitter that all planes put out unless it was on a secret flight. something sounds fishy.
A government who loses a jet doesn't get to dictate to me which guns I own.
You eject from it to save your life and leave it on autopilot...
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