I was wondering what all the 'what would you do with a fighter jet' questions were coming from!
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Well, it's always in the last place you look.
“Where were you when you last saw it?”
Downside of making them so stealthy? Have they checked between the cracks of the couch?
Seriously though, how do you lose a fighter jet in US airspace?
Nobody noticed it on radar? Nobody noticed the boom when it hit the ground? Just wtf?
e: I asked my dad, who was in the Air Force during Korea and has been a test pilot, FAA inspector, and has designed civilian planes ever since. My question:
Sorry to bug you, but I’m curious on your expert opinion. How do we lose a fighter jet in US airspace? Like, how does air traffic control not have tracked it, and how does the air force lose track of it? How did nobody notice a boom? The pilot ejected, so how do we not know where this thing is? I’m very confused.
And his answer:
I have no idea 🙂. Just don’t seem right.
e2: to the person who DM’d me then deleted (I think? I can’t respond and this thread now crashes my client) I expect domestic systems would detect an explosion in the air, and a large number of systems would detect one on the ground, which covers every scenario I can think of. That’s what I meant.
I addressed him that way because we don’t talk much. We’re both engineers.
"I don't know what scares me more: The fact you lost it, or the fact you lose so many, there's a name for it."
I recall many years ago, a pilot where I grew up bailed out of his F18. Not exactly what happened, but the aircraft stabilized and went FAR before it finally crashed.
Well it has a lot of engine, a lot of stealth, and an autopilot. Makes it a nightmare. Hopefully is crashed into the Atlantic.
US military loses a jet fighter: .... ah .. oh well ... waddaya gonna do ... we'll just buy another one, or two or thirty.
I imagine they care less for the cost of the plane (I mean if it was uncontrolled with no pilot it's probably crashed and thoroughly wrecked, right?) and more about avoiding having foreign intelligence agents and such finding it and studying the technology.
Sometimes 'military intelligence' is an oxymoron.
Sorry, but finders keepers
Found it! What do I win?!
A jet fighter!!
(Just kidding, actually a federal investigation 🧐)
I guess they're not offering a reward because it'd have to be for like $200 million minimum. I am sure foreign governments would pay a handsome bounty for any piece of the wreckage.
You should bring them a bumblebee and tell them you found it using radar.
They couldn't afford an airtag for each of these?
Giving every person/government with a bit of money access to their location would probably be a bad idea.