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Marines Release More Details on F-35B, KC-130J Collision
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| Oct. 1, 2020
| Mallory Shelbourne
Posted on 10/05/2020 1:30:45 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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Fortunately, no casualties!
To: The_Media_never_lie
I wonder if the advanced, sophisticated situational awareness features of the F-35 may have led to complacency on the part of the pilot.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:33:36 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Fortunately, no casualties! Not counting at least one career.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:33:52 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
To: The_Media_never_lie
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:37:57 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Well, let’s give them some time. It may be a career, maybe not. Unexpected things do happen that can bite even a good pilot doing all the right things.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:41:11 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: Joe 6-pack
Only if it has an ‘auto refuel’ feature, which it most likely doesn’t.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:52:52 PM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Hand-waving, smoke-in-your-eyes announcement/release...
The bureaucrats in the bowels of the Pentagon are busy busy busy...
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:53:43 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: rlmorel
Careful!
Your post is diametrically opposed to the “guilty before proven innocent” philosophy so prevalent on this page and in law enforcement agencies.
Prepare to be flamed
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:59:08 PM PDT
by
Glennb51
To: The_Media_never_lie
It was bad enough throwing away single engine F-16s at 26million+ apiece. Can’t afford to lose these as quickly ads the F-16s went down.
F-35. Another single engine masterpiece.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:59:25 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: Seruzawa
What are even talking about?
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:02:48 PM PDT
by
oldbill
To: Joe 6-pack
In air refueling is one of many ways to earn your hazard/flight pay. Number of things that can go south if your not paying attention or if some system or hardware fails at the wrong time.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:03:09 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: rlmorel
” It may be a career, maybe not.”
If this guy is flying an F35 he’s several cuts above the rest already. Stuff happens.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:04:25 PM PDT
by
Gen.Blather
(Wait! I said that out loud?)
To: The_Media_never_lie
The air corps equivalent of hitting a gas station bollard.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:04:39 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Glennb51
LOL...and I am guilty of that as well, but I have a soft spot for pilots...:)
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:14:00 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: The_Media_never_lie
I’m truly glad the pilot is ok. That said, let us not forget that approximately 125 million bucks just exploded into a million pieces. That somebody screwed up is obvious. But, I’m sure they will get a letter put in their file.
To: Gen.Blather
True...there could have been some kind of unforeseen turbulence, a hardware or software failure, that kind of thing.
That is an expensive mistake, but that is the world we live in.
I often wonder, if we get into a real shooting war with an enemy bent on attriting (not even sure if that is a word) us and capable of doing it, would we be able to draw from the boneyard?
I mean, hell, an F-18 from the boneyard may be better than nothing, even if there are 5th Gen fighters prowling around. They can’t be everywhere...
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:18:36 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: The_Media_never_lie
According to Wiki, the F-35B runs a cool $101.3 million.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:19:20 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Damn, never even heard about this accident.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:20:46 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
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