https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna105534

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.one
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    9 months ago

    Whoopsy-daisy! We had a fucky-wucky and lost a $100 million war toy! We’re a smol bean, can we get some help finding it pwease? uwu

    Also, in unrelated news, the average time on a wait list in the US for rental assistance is 2.5 years, and 582,000 Americans are experiencing homelessness.

    • envis10n [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      In more unrelated news, the average wait time for a new patient to see a fucking doctor is 26 days.

      So much for that wait time argument against socialized medicine.

    • edge [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      The PLA is reverse engineering it as we speak to learn what not to do when designing planes.

      • zephyreks [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        I mean I'm sure the $400 billion dollars spent on designing the thing must have created something useful and wasn't just used to line the pockets of executives at Lockheed Martin, right?

      • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        The F-35 is genuinely an amazing airplane, even if the American MIC is one of, if not the most, evil organisations on the planet.

        • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          9 months ago

          It has many groundbreaking capabilities like the ability to turn off its transponder and fly itself directly to hainan

        • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          It's definitely amazing at funneling money into the MIC. The number of crashes and lost planes make me think it isn't great, but being more of a train person I'll admit I don't know much about planes. Not to mention I've heard the carrier version has real problems with salt water degrading the stealth coating, but when has salt water been a problem on the ocean, right?

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Someone in Cuba did the San Andreas jump jet cheat code this morning and the plane teleported to Havana

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If not, it was never meant to be.

    If the F-35 loved you back, it'd fly back home to base.

  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    It activated stealth mode and manually reduced its RADAR profile into that of a 2D object

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    VTOL (vertical take off and landing) is still so clumsy, if the US actually had access to Alien tech, you'd think they can have some sort of anti-gravity device. The whole UFO thing by the Government is a big psyop.