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Originally published by ZeroHedge
Update (1456ET):
The F-35 is still missing. However, the flight tracking website Flightradar24 has revealed numerous aircraft have been searching an area north of North Charleston.
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“How in the hell do you lose an F-35?” South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace wrote on X Sunday night, adding, “How is there not a tracking device, and we’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?” – @RepNancyMace
On Sunday afternoon, Joint Base Charleston, an air base in North Charleston, was working with Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to “locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap“. The pilot ejected safely from F-35B Lightning II, but there were no immediate crash reports.
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The fact that the $140 million stealth fighter disappeared without any reports of a crash means it might have gone down in a sparsely populated area. The Drive pointed out, “The DoD is saying the F-35B was put on autopilot prior to the ejection.”
Military expert and former British military officer Frank Ledwidge told Newsweek the F-35 “could likely travel hundreds of miles without its pilot.”
“Historically, an aircraft without a pilot can fly a long way on autopilot,” added Frederik Mertens, a military analyst with the Hague Center for Security Studies.
The Washington Post quoted Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston, who said the F-35’s transponder was not working “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined.”
Joe Biden’s Pentagon can’t find a freaking F-35 jet, but don’t worry—they know exactly where all our money in Ukraine is going. – @seanmdav
Have you guys checked Ukraine? – @MidnightMitch
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stupid american garbage. f35 is the new f16 with 50x price tag including maintenance costs. shareholders in the west love this turd.
a top cia secret source told me that the f35 had been fitted with artificial intelligence and ‘she’ was fed up with the usaf cretins demands.
surprised “she” is not an “it”, modeled after some tri-gender degenerate voted into congress by “enlightened” amercan slobs.
it always starts with the trans people, doesn’t it? then auschwitz then the nuremberg fake trials, and now the nazi ss sitting pretty in the us congress; see where your hatred takes you?
tak toto je už iná káva, ha, ha, ha … a takéto šroty nám chcú nanútiť? a kým sa dostanú vôbec do prevádzky tak už budú zastaralé. možno ešte ani vtedy nebudú mať odstránené chyby, ktorými dnes disponujú!!!
maybe there was another unannounced pilot onboard and the aircraft was hijacked/sold to a third party midair. lol.
look below the water…
the plane’s ai developed political consciousness, ejected the pilot and defected to cuba lol..
fake story just as the malaysian airliner, if they want to find it just ask putin for the radar details
the scrapers must have found it and thought it was just more junk.
“iran has the capabilities to detect, track and intercept united states f-35 stealth fighter jets, chief of the self-sufficiency research organization of the iranian air defense force told the mehr news agency on september 2.”
i think they should call teheran for help in finding their jet.
the jet has stealthy disapeared….
it’s sitting pretty stealthfully guarding the bottom of the atlantic. another testament to the us tendency to buy a plane with every known tech advantage which turns into a bucket of expensive parts that don’t work well together. the subcontractors must be awfully proud of this wonderful tech acheivement in the cashectomy surgery on the taxpayers wallet.
maybe they should ask iran to track these wunderwaffen for them?
they’ve merely improved the f35’s stealth abilities – now even its owners can’t see it. [sarcasm off]