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2019-04-09 China-Japan-Koreas
Japanese F-35 fighter jet disappears from radar over Pacific
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Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-04-09 10:53|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Isn't that the point of stealth?

All snark aside I hope the pilot is ok.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-04-09 12:14||   2019-04-09 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Why make an uber weapon and then sell it to countries all over the world? I don't get it.
Posted by jpal 2019-04-09 12:36||   2019-04-09 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 F-22 is the uber weapon?
Posted by 3dc 2019-04-09 13:17||   2019-04-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 some 135 kilometers east of the base (Misawa) when radar contact was lost

Likely lost in ocean. Far as I know, the radar enhancing Luneberg lenses can not be jettisoned. To defect, pilot would have to fly east over Japan through lots of radar coverage.

Also never heard of a Japanese pilot defecting. Chinese are ancient enemies. Russians are new enemies.
Posted by Cretle Big Foot4791 2019-04-09 13:22||   2019-04-09 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5  F-22 is the uber weapon?

Totally, dude. When the aliens attack. all the F-35s on the planet merge into one gigantic flying robot to defend Earth from the invaders. Assuming you can believe those cartoonish marketing videos.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-09 13:37||   2019-04-09 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6  Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Destroyer DD 154 JDS Amagiri is currently in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chiba Prefecture.
Posted by 3dc 2019-04-09 13:39||   2019-04-09 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 fly east west over Japan
Posted by Cretle Big Foot4791 2019-04-09 13:41||   2019-04-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Also never heard of a Japanese pilot defecting.

Japanese military and government is about as secure to the Chinese as the old West German government was to the East Germans.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-09 14:12||   2019-04-09 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 May simply be a specially instrumented airframe off to collect. The search, a ruse to it's recovery.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-09 14:25||   2019-04-09 14:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I hope this isn't another Aegis CD-ROM.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-04-09 16:17||   2019-04-09 16:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Debris associated with the lost #JASDF #F35 from this morning has been found
Posted by 3dc 2019-04-09 22:57||   2019-04-09 22:57|| Front Page Top

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