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F35 “missing”

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by tampagtr, Sep 17, 2023.

  1. Gatorhead

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    Duggars Dad was last seen hauling it away.
     
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  2. wgbgator

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    I think all those 'UFOs' are just unmanned ghost F35s
     
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  4. flgator2

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    How Does an F-35 Go Missing in Mid-Flight? Mike Lee and Others Have Some Great Questions – RedState

    According to Joint Base Charleston, the jet had an undefined "mishap" that caused the pilot to eject. The pilot landed safely and was recovered, and he's in stable condition at a hospital. But the jet, which was on auto-pilot, has not as yet been found. The transponder -- the way you might normally locate the jet -- also wasn't working for some unexplained reason, according to reports.

    Joint Base Charleston has now appealed to the public for help, and they're looking in the Lake Moultrie area near Charleston.

    However, because it was on auto-pilot, they said it could still be airborne. But then that raises the question of why the pilot had to eject. What was the "mishap" that made him bail?

    "How in the hell do you lose an F-35?" she exclaimed. "How is there not a tracking device and we’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?" she said.

    This is very strange in so many ways.
     
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  6. tampagtr

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  8. tampagtr

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    Picked a bad day to...
     
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  9. exiledgator

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    ... eject from a 100 million dollar plane?
     
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  10. duggers_dad

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    Why all the hauling expense when you can just wait for them to go down ?
     
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    lol true
     
  13. Emmitto

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    Woulda had to purchase all new proprietary bases to land them, but Apple would have at least put “Find My Plane” on the iJet.
     
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  14. tampagtr

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    Debris field found

     
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  15. dave_the_thinker

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    The locals must have thought it was a Spencer Rattler errant pass.
     
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  16. Sohogator

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    They don’t know if it crashed? Do F35’s have recently installed fusion engines? If so that price tag doesn’t look so bad.
     
  17. gtr2x

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    Well there goes another $100million. :eek:
    Oh well.
     
  18. G8tas

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    Can we blame the vaccine?
     
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  19. cron78

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    Kinda ironic that it took us a day to find a stealth aircraft the old fashioned way wrecked in the woods…duh, it is a stealth aircraft.
     
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