So this means that when the war starts, the chicoms will be safe as long as the weather is bad...
Surely this is the Bee...
We have a combat jet that can’t fly into storms? What a country.
An outgrowth of the legendary "center fuel tank explosion" on TWA flight 800. Most commercial planes use a nitrogen harvesting and injection system for the fuel tanks these days. (There are some competing technologies, I'll leave it to the experts as to whether any of them are actually in service.)
It's not like these systems are cutting edge at this point.
F-35s can’t fly in storms. Our enemies are thrilled with that ‘secret’ getting out.
If they couldn’t be seen before, during storms, they’ll be even more invisible.
Imagine if airlines couldn’t fly in bad weather. We’d be flying only half the time.
Can’t fly in storms?
Very sad.
This country has gone downhill.
We would have lost World War 2 with todays military.
“Hey, you guys...do you mind if we don’t have a war today? There’s stormy weather in the forecast.”
even Hillary’s broom has tactical fighter training experience in storms. Though her take offs and landings leave a lot of room for improvement.
Extreme yet ever increasing levels of incompetence at EVERY level of government.
Old combat systems: Minimum technology, maximum flexibility.
New combat systems: Maximum technology, minimum flexibility.
I’m beginning to thing we’re moving in the wrong direction.
The rumor mill is that the aircraft was hacked and controlled remotely.
Possible? I don't know, but nothing is outside the realm of possibilities considering the depth at which so many of our national secrets have been pilfered.
Time to dust off those old Tomcats and bring them out of the boneyards. At least they're impervious to ChiCom/Russian hackers.
Lightnings cannot fly near lightning... got it.
I have am older, unshielded pacemaker and I am not supposed to get near an alternator or a microwave oven.
It has never happened, but I am supposed to get “zapped” if I do.
So, our F-35 has unshielded “fly by wire” flight controls?
And can’t fly in clouds?
FANTASTIC!
Hi-tech is wonderful, except when it is not!
so let me get this straight, the Lightning, is allergic to LIGHTNING? is that it?? really???
Everything the Biden administration says about this event will be a lie.
Maybe the plane was trying to pick up a few buddies who were away from the base too long.
C’mon, it’s South Carolina We zip in, we pick ‘em up, we zip right out again. We’re not going to Moscow.
I don't think the official narrative is what happened. It's too weird. But again, who knows?
I have been posting this on this site and others.
The F-35 has a fatal flaw in being subjected to lightning strikes that fry the large number of computers inside the airplane. When that happens, the fighter is uncontrollable and the pilot has no choice but to eject.
This vulnerability to lightning is baked into the cake of the composite structure of the aircraft which makes it stealthy.
What makes the F-35 super stealthy also makes it fatally flawed in its vulnerability to lightning. It is really just a bunch of computers with wings attached.
This is a garbage aircraft that MUST be abandoned before any further overpriced copies are built.
This terrible waste of money cannot possibly result in the USA having air superiority in war.
This was a boondoggle that is a gold mine for the manufacturer and a complete loser in combat.
It’s EXOTIC.....a vertical take off and landing (B model) to replace the Harrier (for the USMC) and all sorts of exotic electronics.......didn’t even have internal guns - but the belly pod ‘fixed’ that. Oh....and let’s not forget the ‘stealth.’
It’s really nothing more than a perpetual get-well card for the MIC on foreign sales - with a hefty first line investment from Uncle Sam.
Heaven forbid we should ever have combat in or near a storm.. Still not buying it. Something else going on.
Theres something with the stealth coatings and potential lightning strikes doing some unwanted things to the jet.
It begs a massive question. Why can’t our 100+million dollar cutting edge stealth jets not fight in stormy weather?
This can mean not being able to fly through cloud structures, not just storms.