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Mystery solved.

They are claiming they found the debris field now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-35-fighter-jet-missing-pilot-ejects-mishap-rcna105534

socal2 says

They are claiming they found the debris field now.

LOL! Told ya so. Does the alleged site have any intact box cutters and passports of the 9/11 hijackers?

socal2 says

They are claiming they found the debris field now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-35-fighter-jet-missing-pilot-ejects-mishap-rcna105534

Do they have the thick black fence up yet?

They will be too embarrassed to admit the item was jacked. Time for another movie.

RWSGFY says

All the peeps who were braying about stealth being a non-thing are eating a massive crow now. :D

I'm not. You can track a jet with satellites by the amount of heat it gives off. There's no way to mask that. Radar is kind of WWII technology.

Did you know we can track subs now by the wake they leave? They always leave a wake, no matter how deep they are, but it does take time for the ripple to appear on the surface.

Apparently the transponder didn't work, and neither did the plane since the pilot ejected. That's some grade A tech there. Are these the same guy's Pedo Joe said would take us out if we didn't give up our assault rifles?

NuttBoxer says

Apparently the transponder didn't work, and neither did the plane since the pilot ejected. That's some grade A tech there.

Complex tech does fail sometimes. Even simple tech does. Fucking flintlocks fail to fire now and then. You are in SW QA, aren't you? So you know how the sausage is made.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mishaps-and-bad-luck-tuesday-september

Joint Base Charleston said in a statement that searchers who had been looking for the missing warplane located the wreckage in Williamsburg County, north of Charleston, but stopped short of confirming it was from the missing jet.

They “stopped short?” What? That hardly “ends the mystery.” And, why stop short? What’s causing the confusion? Was the evidence completely burned up into ashes like in Lahaina, or did the jet self-destruct or something? What’s stopping the Marine Corp from identifying the wreckage of its own plane? ...

They haven’t explained why the pilot ejected from the plane. According to reliable sources, a Marine pilot would never have ejected from an operational aircraft absent orders to do so. ...

The accident’s description of the software glitch was terrifically provocative: It sounded like the plane was trying to take over and fly itself:

As they prepared to land, the pilot felt a “slight rumbling” of turbulence from the wake of the aircraft in front of him, the report said. The bumpy air caused the F-35′s flight controls to register incorrect flight data, and the jet stopped responding to the pilot’s attempts at manual control.

The pilot tried to abort the landing and try again, but the jet responded by sharply banking to the left. Further attempts to right the aircraft failed, and the pilot safely ejected north of the base. His F-35 crashed near a runway at Hill.

How curious. I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t land the plane right now.

The F-35 has a complex computer controlled system that’s in constant contact with ground control streaming video and radar and GPS coordinates. If it “lost contact” then it was jammed or (more likely) hacked. If it was hacked, the hackers could have remotely ejected the pilot and flown it to Cuba for a nice safe landing. Now the Russians and Chinese have access to our $1.7 trillion dollar technology.
Our military is really fucking up lately.

LOL! They are becoming their own predictable and repeatable joke:
"Debris field allegedly found for crashed F-35 in SC, but I don't see any debris in the helicopter video"
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=229425

It crashed less than 100 miles from it's base in well populated east-coast CONUS and took 28 hours to find.

Well, the F35 might already be obsolete in one way or another. Or, ceding it to the blackguards could be a spy vs. spy maneuver by filling it with spy shit and and false technology leads/ crypto softwares to make their imitations fall out of the sky with the push of a button. Or, just a payout from captured politicians so they can stay alive. By the time they finish analyzing the fucking thing and establishing industrialized production of the elements, the whole theater of war might have moved on.

The military knows instantaneously where this thing is and went, unless they put it into a huge faraday cage.

Another twist from the twist mill:

https://t.me/drue86/44761

Are they sure that isn't an Apollo landing site on the moon?

https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/52877

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/zelensky-upset-to-hear-one-of-his-jets-ruined

I'll bet it crashed in a field and buried itself

RWSGFY says

Complex tech does fail sometimes. Even simple tech does. Fucking flintlocks fail to fire now and then. You are in SW QA, aren't you? So you know how the sausage is made.

I just know that tech is routinely over-hyped, and government contracts produce some of the most half-assed equipment manufactured anywhere. I've never taken government contracts for moral reasons, but I've heard plenty from people who have.

Ceffer says

https://t.me/drue86/44761

I thought they were $80 million

NuttBoxer says

RWSGFY says

Complex tech does fail sometimes. Even simple tech does. Fucking flintlocks fail to fire now and then. You are in SW QA, aren't you? So you know how the sausage is made.

I just know that tech is routinely over-hyped, and government contracts produce some of the most half-assed equipment manufactured anywhere. I've never taken government contracts for moral reasons, but I've heard plenty from people who have.

Without government contracts there won't be any military equipment. Without military equipment there won't be military. You aren't proposing we go w/o military, are you?

We go back to "Name the price per piece in lots of 100" and contractors build the prototype on their own dime.

No more cost-plus, it's been a disaster.

It's probably in a Walmart warehouse somewhere waiting to be crated and shipped back to China.

All we know about this missing aircraft is that everything is still up in the air.

> All we know about this missing aircraft is that everything is still up in the air.

Except... um, you know... the aircraft.

RWSGFY says

Without government contracts there won't be any military equipment. Without military equipment there won't be military. You aren't proposing we go w/o military, are you?

Didn't need one when the country was founded. All citizens had free access to the latest guns and ammo back then.

Do you trust our government? Do you believe they have your best interests at heart? Asking because you seem to think you need them to protect you. Despite the fact that throughout government has always done the opposite.

For what we need I will refer you to the 2nd Amendment, specifically well regulated militias.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/spoofed-wednesday-september-20-2023

ABC quoted one of its regular news contributors, retired Colonel Steve Ganyard, who was shocked that the military could somehow “lose” the plane for 28 hours. "Even though it's a stealth aircraft, losing a stealth aircraft is hard to understand. ... It does seem ridiculous that an aircraft this expensive, this sophisticated, it could just vanish," he said.

Yes. It does seem ridiculous. Ridiculous and indescribably shameful.

You might also muse about how it’s odd to lose any kind of aircraft only one mile from the airport. Plus, the plane basically continued on the same line after the pilot ejected:




Did they even try flying the flight path in a helicopter? It was only 80 miles away right along the flight path. It should have taken them only half an hour to find it.

To be clear, we don’t have any idea what caused the crash or why it took the military 28 hours to find the crash site. Yesterday I speculated about nefarious Chinese hackers, and some skeptical commenters thought the theory premature. But I wasn’t the only one wondering about that theory. The UK Daily Mail ran this story:




It wouldn’t be the first time the military got hacked this year. Remember Jack Texiera? The young part-time Texas national guard member and video game aficionado who supposedly hacked all our intelligence agencies and downloaded embarrassing Ukraine intel that showed Biden had been lying for a year?

Like a lost F35 fighter jet, Texiera completely vanished off the news radar in May. But I digress.

According to the Mail’s article, a four-year-old GAO report warned the $80 million F35’s systems “provided a back door for hackers.” POGO, a military watchdog agency, also released a report in 2019 showing that nearly every software-enabled weapon system they tested between 2012 and 2017 can be hacked - including the F-35. ...

As if that weren’t enough, also in 2019 the Pentagon itself confirmed the F35B — the same plane that just crashed in Charleston — has already been hacked by the Chinese.

As I understand it, somebody with a Chinese accent called the Pentagon saying they needed the F35 login password to update the antivirus software.

Patrick says

As I understand it, somebody with a Chinese accent called the Pentagon saying they needed the F35 login password to update the antivirus software.

Milley: "Oh, sure, I have it written on a scratch pad here somewhere, and it's also taped to my laptop. Here you go. Will that same Chinese tranny hooker be at the Watergate, tonight? It's my favorite."

Bad weather? C'mon. This thing can fly way, way above any bad weather.



Xir or Woman pilot, STOL issues, or Hack? Only options IMHO.

Pilots don't touch the F-35 until they've had 1000+ hours in simulations, trainer aircraft, then simulations specific for the F-35 for a hundred or two hundred hours, before they're allowed to fly it in perfect visibility doing routine staight and level flights for scores of hours.

There's no way the Defense Department or Lockheed Lobbyist Paid DoD Rules would force an F-35 pilot to continue training in bad weather (in a populated area no less), lest it makes the aircraft look bad. I doubt the Pilot felt compelled by Rules to remain in a dangerous situation on a training flight.

All She/They/Them had to do was pull up and gain a few thousand feet in altitude, which anybody who spent hundreds of hours in a T-34 Mentor could easily do.

And why Eject instead of pulling up?

AmericanKulak says

Bad weather? C'mon. This thing can fly way, way above any bad weather.

And through any bad weather. All military warplanes are seriously IFR equipped and max use is made of IFR on every flight regardless of weather conditions. The only rule in the Air Force was never to penetrate a thunderstorm in peacetime. Nobody bails out because the weather got bad. I will comment on "flying above any bad weather," though. Thunderstorms in the Midwest top often out above 50,000 ft, so no flying above those.

Maybe the tranny pilot stopped to ask for directions, and went into the alleged death spiral. It broke a nail ejecting.

Damn climate change did it.

HeadSet says

AmericanKulak says

Bad weather? C'mon. This thing can fly way, way above any bad weather.

And through any bad weather. All military warplanes are seriously IFR equipped and max use is made of IFR on every flight regardless of weather conditions. The only rule in the Air Force was never to penetrate a thunderstorm in peacetime. Nobody bails out because the weather got bad. I will comment on "flying above any bad weather," though. Thunderstorms in the Midwest top often out above 50,000 ft, so no flying above those.

Unless you’re a U2 pilot…