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Posted on 09/18/2023 8:15:21 AM PDT by servo1969
Those F-35 stealth fighters must be even closer to invisible than I thought because the Marines lost one on Sunday and nobody can find it.
A Marine piloting the special vertical takeoff and landing version, the F-35B, suffered some kind of “mishap” and was forced to eject over South Carolina. He ejected safely. He’s fine. We can go on and laugh. The plane, however, was nowhere to be found. Weighing in at over 32,000 pounds even when it isn’t filled with jet fuel, you’d think the missing jet would be easy to find, but no.
There was genuine concern that the autopilot might have been on, meaning that there was an $80 million fighter jet gently cruising around over South Carolina with no pilot and no canopy. Sunday drivers, amirite?
So whoever runs the social media for Joint Base Charleston took to Twitter to ask for help finding the super-invisible stealth fighter.
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An early report from NBC noted that “The jet was left in autopilot mode so there’s a possibility it could still be airborne somewhere over South Carolina.” That was early Sunday evening. Surely, it’s run out of fuel by now. (Yes, and don’t call me Shirley.)
But no one seems to have seen or heard the thing crash.
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Good one!
My first thought was...”there’s got to be a way to blame Trump & the Jan.6th crowd for this!”
Maybe do one with LooterMan.
Was this article written by a 12 year old boy?
“Nobody Can Stop Laughing”? Really?
“Sunday drivers, amirite?” Really?
Juvenile.
I suppose ... that plane could be flown remotely from the ground? And this may be some 3-letter agency “thing” where they disappear one of these aircraft. And then send it to ... somewhere ... that starts with the letter “U”.
What?
I shouldn’t have said that out loud?
A single F35 isn’t going to make a bit of difference in Ukraine. The whole concept behind the F35 is to network them all, back to an AWACS. One plane by itself wouldn’t last a day.
Can’t they “ping” it and ask where it is?
So you don’t smell a conspiracy here?
Or are you one of those peeps that spreads disinformation in response to disinformation?
Your assertion is quite shallow. But you are welcome to it.
I believe that the simplest cause is usually the cause.
It’s in the ocean or at the bottom of a lake.
You wouldn’t believe the number of caulk guns I’ve found after after buying a new one!
LOL
HOW CONVENIENT!!! THE CHINESE HAVE IT!
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What is the pronoun of the pilot? Bet they could answer that one.
your theory is better than mine (its in the Great Dismal Swamp)
I fear that is a plausible scenario. This vague “mishap” cover-up story is such BS.
The “B” variant is a short take-off and vertical landing aircraft (STOVL). It would be tough to land it remotely on a Chinese craft in ocean.
China likely has it already. I suspect they got a hold of the ‘high tech’ (meaning GPS) navigation system and spoofed it to one of their many boats hanging out in the Atlantic.
At the unclassified level, this is not an unreasonable scenario.
I don’t rememberGeorge Peppard rowing afyer one but I’ll take your word for it.
He tracked down a missing jetliner once.
what would be the statute of limitations on stealing one of those thingies... asking for a friend.
I bumped into something yesterday but couldn’t figure out what it was. I’ll give them a call.
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