To: All; Melian; xone; OldWarBaby; niteowl77; USMC79to83; Disestablishmentarian; Bob Ireland; ...
OK, show of hands: Who believes that a US Marine Corp F-35, or whatever it was/is, flying a mile or so from Charleston Air Force Base, was not being tracked by air control radar?
These graphics are from the declass 2009 discussion. The systems are separately updatable, and number of 'Block x' modifications rolled out since then. There exists a brief on how real-time maintenance logs might be log-shipped to ground during flight. There is no way in hell that that whole ship went dead. A hidden and shielded AT&T cell phone would of tracked it to the floor.
