The newsworthy part is that it was flying long enough to crash somewhere different to where it took off from.
Lmao these things aren't even in combat
A Chinese weather balloon was in the airspace, show some sensibility.
chinese fentanyl balloon overdosed the f-35
I wonder if there's an F-22 sitting in an airbase somewhere with a kill marker and its just 🎈
-$100,000,000 of taxpayer dollars
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
another ~~kkkrakkker~~ hospital or five down
Quote source? I swear I’ve seen it before
American President Eisenhower in a farewell address
Well we know the ejection seat works! Har har har har!
We knew it worked before, it just also decapitated the pilots!
They just do that sometimes
Gonna have to rename another air craft "the spirit of John McCain "
Live pilot reaction:
This is not funny, please think about the fact that these planes only do that when they are under extreme distress.
they test these goddamn things OVER MY FUCKING HOUSE. can't wait to have one of these flying hospitals crash into my city.
Buy a laser pointer and an RC car.
uncritical support to Comrade Gravity in its eternal struggle against the Great $$atan 
Well, that's one way of landing your aircraft...
was surprised the announcer said it over the loudspeaker, at EAA it was supposed to do a demonstration but both the show vehicle and the backup had a last minute problem and couldn't fly
Come on, I'll waste $100,000,000 better than this. At least it'll be almost as funny.
:kylo-ren-more:
Hilarious our "fighter jets" keep dropping like flies...without even being in combat.
"No way our enemy can shoot this down!"
They don't have to bro.
🎵Highway to the🎵
🎵DANGER ZONE🎵
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