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US military asks the public for help finding its missing F-35 fighter jet after its pilot had to eject while training over South Carolina (news.yahoo.com)
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The US military is appealing to the public to help find an advanced F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing over South Carolina.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What, this F35? No sir this one was mine already. Ya I’ve had her for years. Hang on a sec lemme ask my cousin if he’s seen yours around

Hey Greg!….

[–] JohnDolt 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this is how the Pepsi guy got his jet plane?

[–] littlewonder 2 points 1 year ago

Damn, you beat me to the Pepsi joke. Not only am I not original but I'm not original in a userbase the size of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is strange. It almost makes me think the scenario was an elaborate ruse to capture an F-35:

  • get an inside man to mess with the avionics
  • including turning off location telemetry
  • simulate a failure that requires an ejection
  • fly the plane into the ocean using autopilot
  • recover via submarine
[–] morphballganon 3 points 1 year ago

Couldn't have been that advanced, if it doesn't even have a GPS tracker

[–] mvirts 1 points 1 year ago

Hey man, we've lost nukes that we're never found, this is just another hunk of junk at the bottom of the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

!noncredibledefense?