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On the morning of September 17, 2023, a lone Marine pilot descended under a billowing parachute into a quiet residential area near Charleston,
South Carolina. Emergency services quickly arrived, and the pilot, part of the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
However, his aircraft, a $100 million F-35B Lightning II, was nowhere to be found.
Despite the safe ejection, the stealth fighter, one of the most advanced and expensive pieces of military hardware in the world, equipped with state-of-the-art technology designed to evade detection, had seemingly vanished without a trace.
Authorities launched an intensive search operation, enlisting federal, state, and local officials to scour the region. The disappearance of a runaway, pilotless F-35 stealth fighter in South Carolina had everyone searching high and low.
This unprecedented situation stirred confusion and concern among both military personnel and civilians. It was a baffling mystery. How does a jet go missing?
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IF this is 'the future of American air combat'…
The future is looking quite…
DARK
What a gabled monotone narration .
That's 13 minutes I won't ever get back.
The least you could have done is show a map of where the pilot ejected, and where the plane crashed.
In fact, that's about all you needed to do, but you chose to pump this up with information we all know already.
10:35 That's a crashed Eurofighter.
The aircraft ejects the pilot then flies itself to a designated location, say a foreign carrier waiting offshore. Meanwhile another older jet is crashed and cleaned up, by the military, to complete the story. Some politician scratched another back. Idk.
Seems like an expensive toy to lose in such an asinine way, but it could be that stupidly simple.
Was that an actual image of the crashed jet? Didn't look like it…
Every country that bought them are now building their own 6th gen fighters, such as the Tempest, turns out building your own is cheaper quicker and produces a superior and more reliable product !
Fortunately the F35 can’t replace any of the planes mentioned. The A10, F16 and F15 are all superior. The money spent on the F35 could’ve been used to buy F22s.
I am not 100 percent convinced that the F-35 is worth the investment. Only 29% of the airframe produced for the U.S. is flight worthy, the whole .program is billions of dollars over budget, multiple software and engine problems and SNAFUs. So far nothing more than another military aviation money pit.
When your state-of-the-art jet wants to start the machine uprising. But fuel tank only has so many hours.
I know this joke has been done 1000 times but, "Why is everyone so upset? You could not find it, so it works, right?"
Real expensive junk.
Your incorrect trash was showing emergency personnel from other countries. Your info was lies. You post lies far too often. Apparently you do not even try to be accurate.
The pilot was not forced to eject, he was forcibly ejected. Big difference.
This was in Swamp Fox territory. A lot of things go missing there. Ask the British.
If it’s so fancy, why didn’t it land itself? Huh? Well?
the military doesnt have to explain anything at all to civilians. thats not how national security works at all
The reason why the F-35 disappeared is because it is a STEALTH AIRCRAFT.
Apparently the "prove your not a robot" capcha was filled out wrong by the pilot.
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So it spit out its pilot and departed for parts unknown. That has to be a first. Yes there have been pilotless aircraft carrying on by themselves until they run out of fuel and crash but how many summarily eject the pilot and flock off?
At multiple times in this video (10:32, 12:03), a crashed aircraft (a helicopter?) is shown while specifically discussing the F-35B,
it shows an aircraft wreck. But what is shown was NOT an F-35.
It is misleading to introduce these images of a crashed aircraft which bears no relation to the aircraft they are specifically discussing.
As I seen somewhere. The US designed and produced a stealth fighter that was so hard to detect, even they can find it. Seems to be working in our books. 😂
And phrases "suffering from success" always come up with this. 😅