A pilot training in one of America's most expensive weapons systems ejected over South Carolina. Officials can't find the F-35 he was flying.

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[–]sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This later today:

US authorities searching for a missing F-35 stealth fighter jet have found a debris field in South Carolina.

The debris was located in rural Williamsburg County, close to where the pilot ejected and parachuted to safety on Sunday.

The field is about two hours northeast of Marine Corps’ Joint Base Charleston and residents were being asked to avoid the area while the recovery team worked to secure it.

Repeat close to where the pilot ejected and parachuted to safety on Sunday.

Really.

Then how, EXACTLY, did no one spot it before the humiliating public ask for help finding the wreckage?

I have doubts....

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Corrected headline: A pilot in America's 3rd Air Force, training in one of America's most expensive weapons systems ejected over South Carolina. Officials can't find the F-35 he was flying.

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trollin' trollin' trollin'.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

A former test pilot said F-35 jets — Lockheed Martin's fifth-generation stealth aircraft — were intended for air superiority and strike missions and were "designed precisely" to fight and win in the kind of war happening in Ukraine, Insider previously reported. The US Air Force deployed F-35s to NATO's front line to patrol for Russian missiles following the invasion of Ukraine.

Bwahahahaha!!! Please, send that flying trashcan to Ukraine, that will surely be the Wunderwaffen that wins the war!

They aren't flying F-35s anywhere near Russian forces, because Russian electronic warfare measures can brick the F-35's electronics, forcing the pilot to fly blind and try to find his way home by following landmarks on the ground. Also, Russian satellites and fighters can see the 'stealth' fighter, so presumably their missiles can too.

[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It would be rather embarrassing to have it proven that their expensive planes can't do the thing they were designed to do.

[–]weavilsatemyface 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even the Ukrainian Cokehead In Chief Zelensky isn't desperate enough to ask for F-35s.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An F-35 getting shot down by an S-400, would be very bad for business.

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It's stealth, I'm marking this as a feature not a bug

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yup.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

TV Tropes backs you up 😄

Or, maybe they just made an awesome stealth device... that they can't find because they can't see it.

[–]hfxB0oyA 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bye-bye, $100 million!