This is gonna get really interesting.
BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
Landed on a Chinese freighter off the coast?
ReplyDeleteThese days pretty much everything is bizarre, especially if it’s coming from the US government. Maybe they are covering up that UFOs beamed to F-35 up into the mothership hanger. Meanwhile, and I hope I didn’t regret this moment of levity later, how about a post featuring a few good missing F-35 memes?
ReplyDeleteI guess the prevailing question would be: how do you lose an F35?
ReplyDeleteEasy.
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You let your girlfriend drive it.
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At Big Countries sight, in the comments, Insider says it was shot down while practicing low speed maneuvers (at 2500 ft) in a sparsely populated area, known to local LEO's as a militia activity area. Pilot reported hearing "pings" before red lights came on. That will not help overseas sales. That story (if true) will be ruthlessly supressed.
DeleteLeave the keys in the ignition and the canopy unlocked
DeleteHave a vaxxed pilot fly it and die an "unexplained" death in the air. Beauty of this from the .mil standpoint is that there is unlikely to be any evidence to support this.
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ReplyDeleteLet's try this for SWAG (Simple Wild Ass Guess) - some nasty state player hacks the electronics in real time (helloo Chinese balloons and satellites), pilot sees fatal failure and bails. Nefarious player remote flies the craft to a smooth landing at one of those secret bases (called PLA China Overseas Farms) somewhere out there, crew of all those fine young military age gotaways that have arrived from China over the past 2 years dismantles the thing with plasma and mechanical cutters then puts it into a lovely batch 40' COSCO container scheduled on return "empty" to China. Well coordinated, well hidden, well greased. Gosh, got to get cracking on that novel, it won't write itself, eh?
ReplyDeleteOh well, the story is still fiction https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/debris-field-found-search-missing-35-south-carolina/story?id=103291654
DeleteIt just landed in Kiev.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they trying to distract us from now...
ReplyDeleteSo they stood down the aircraft with the most modern sensors and likelihood of finding the lost airplane.
ReplyDeleteQuestion is - What made them announce it to the public anyway?
ReplyDelete^^This right here.^^
DeleteThe F35 has Data Links up the wazoo. It’s designed to gather real time data and distribute it to other aircraft and ground crew to help build an accurate picture of a dog fight/battle. The damn things like an Iphone. We know where they’re all at, all the time. Unless there's something really nefarious going on.
ReplyDeleteLooks as if the F-35 has been found: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-debris-found-in-field-after-frantic-search-for-missing-jet
ReplyDeleteThat aircraft is a total piece of junk, as far as I'm concerned. I worked on the design of some black boxes for it some years ago, and what a clunker.
Let me get this right. Suddenly, ALL the best trained pilots in the world are told they don't know a g---amned thing about flying, so take this long winded gee whiz special training. Elsewise, you aint leaving dirt. is that right? Sounds like there is a major hole in the available information. I notice they didn't differentiate about what is being flown, either. Even the caveman simple aircraft are no go? Some new threat, and how to handle it.
ReplyDeleteI think it could be parked at a charging station to reserve it for Jennifer Granholm ...
ReplyDeleteDebris field has apparently been located. Why the pilot ejected (or was ejected?) has not been released.
ReplyDeleteThe 2 -day standdown was ordered by the acting CMC for all Marine Aviation units. A safety standdown is common when there have been multiple incidents that need to be addressed.
Re: the term “mishap.” This is the standard term for an aircraft accident/incident in USN parlance. I understand that it his a kind of “oopsie” flavor to it for those not in the service.
Just another day in clown world.
ReplyDeleteA Marine aircraft? Hmmmm interesting indeed.
ReplyDeleteGreen Hills Software produces the Integrity 178B Operating System that powers the F-35, F-22, F-16, and B-2. It also powers the Airbus A380. It was also quite possibly leaked. Now you understand why the entire USMC air fleet has been grounded.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: the CEO of Green Hills Software is none other than infamous Elon Musk hater Dan O'Dowd.
Bwahahaha training unit, he hit the wrong switch. ps It’s in the ocean.
ReplyDeleteShe’s cleaning the crusty exterior for other non-normal uses
ReplyDeleteRead an anonymous comment on one of the chans a few hours ago, so take this with a heavy dose of skepticism. Commenter posted that the F-35 in question was practicing hover maneuvers in an area with a very active paranoid militia, and apparently the plane was downed by heavy caliber (.50bmg) small arms fire. The Air Force knew exactly what happened, but they can't tell the world their newest and most sophisticated jet fighter was brought down by a couple guys with rifles, so they'd rather look stupid than weak.
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DeleteRather easy to bring down an aircraft in hover mode with small arms fire. As any 'Nam Herky-bird pilot about kids with slingshots and stones...
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