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US Marines Lose $80 Million Stealth Fighter Jet
(futurism.com)
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I love how they won't say why the ghost of south carolina decided to eject himself out of an otherwise perfectly functional plane.
$100million misclick
I actually went digging a bit, and it's even fucking dumber lmao
Something probably shorted/malfunctioned and just yeeted this asshole out lmao
I would think competent design would mean it probably only auto ejects when it is at low speeds (as the article seems to allude to with the whole 'auto eject if something goes wrong in hover mode'), but we all know this was not even close to competent design.
Wonder if we're going to get some headline in a few years about how one of these auto ejected when the pilot was going mach 2
My guess here is that hover-mode for the marines has this added safety feature because the hover mode has a habit of flipping and the marines pilots are not very well trained for dealing with it, so they wanted it to auto-yeet the pilots because they don't think they'd be fast enough to eject when panic sets in without the added help.
Plane thinks it's in hover mode and the plane is rolling, so it yeets the pilot out. The only error that has to happen here is for the "hover mode" sensor to be wrong.
Seems probable. I did also find this separate, but hilarious issue for the Air Force version of the F35 when rooting around
How many different ways can they screw up one area lmao
I wonder how many pilots were doing incredibly dangerous things while having literally no ejection seat lol
When you're finally at cruising altitude and feel like reclining your seat for a bit...
We'll hear in like 5 weeks about how it was Russian or Chinese interference
Maybe the pilot had Havana Syndrome
Look, it was a mishap. (Dropped their giant operator sunglasses onto the big red button)