The most advanced stealth fighter in the world – as claimed by the US obviously – has vanished over the country's airspace since Sunday!
Another F-35B Lightning II flying at the same time returned safely to base. I'm assuming the second aircraft acted as the wingman and if this is so, what it did would be unusual protocol.
Military officials said the $100m aircraft was involved in a "mishap" but did not offer details of what that was. In any case, the pilot had ejected from the cockpit and parachuted to safety in a North Charleston neighbourhood in South Carolina. He is reported to be in a stable condition in hospital.
The US military said on Monday they were still searching for the F-35 fighter jet. "If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600", Joint Base Charleston tweeted on X.
Well, one thing's certain. The prized plane's stealth mode works wonderfully!
In fact, I had read about information from the US Department of Defense that revealed more than 800 design flaws in the F-35.
Indeed, the said plane has problems a-plenty! In October 2018, the entire fleet of F-35s was temporarily grounded after a crash in South Carolina the previous month. In April 2019, a Japanese F-35 crashed over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan. In November 2021, a UK F-35 rolled off a Royal Navy aircraft carrier and fell into the sea. In January 2022, an F-35C joint strike fighter crashed aboard the US Navy's Nimitz-class supercarrier, USS Carl Vinson. And in December of the same year, an F-35 crash landed at the US Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas.
No comments:
Post a Comment