The F-35 thread

Found this comment interesting, in a Sky News report on the pilot's 911 call from someone's house:

"The jet, the corps explained, also has features which erase the aircraft's secure communications in case of an ejection - a feature designed to protect both the pilot's location and the plane's classified systems - but this may have complicated efforts to find it."
 
Arthur said:
Found this comment interesting, in a Sky News report on the pilot's 911 call from someone's house:

"The jet, the corps explained, also has features which erase the aircraft's secure communications in case of an ejection - a feature designed to protect both the pilot's location and the plane's classified systems - but this may have complicated efforts to find it."
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All modern fighter jets have those features, even our Gripens. The Gripen ejection system first attempts to erase all data and then fries the electronics.
 
Pak Fa Fui said:
So you are leaning towards conspiracy now
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I'm not saying it's the aliens, but ...

Why do you think they made no attempts to retrieve those highly sensitive and classified instruments? Think the Americans are dumb?
 
King Sollie Solomon said:
I'm not saying it's the aliens, but ...

Why do you think they made no attempts to retrieve those highly sensitive and classified instruments? Think the Americans are dumb?
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See page 48 for Bukas big blowout on conspiracy theories relating to this incident
 
Maintenance challenges negatively affect F-35 aircraft readiness. The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023, far below program goals. This performance was due in part to challenges with depot and organizational maintenance (see fig.). The program was behind schedule in establishing depot maintenance activities to conduct repairs. As a result, component repair times remained slow with over 10,000 waiting to be repaired—above desired levels. At the same time, organizational-level maintenance has been affected by a number of issues, including a lack of technical data and training.
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hexagon said:

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Over the last decade these are the USAF aircraft with the lowest readiness rates (as in didn't meet readiness rate in any year 2011-2021).

www.airforcetimes.com

Here’s all the military planes that keep falling short on readiness

About half of the aircraft studied never reached their annual readiness goal between fiscal 2011 and 2021, despite billions of dollars in investments.
www.airforcetimes.com www.airforcetimes.com
  • A-10
  • C-17
  • CV-22
  • F-15C/D
  • F-16
  • F-22
Here's the full list

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They should just have gone with Boeing. I really like the look of that aircraft.
 
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