I recall a company engineer explaining that the drone was going nuts because of the wine getting into the electronics in the nose cone and that it wouldn't be a problem since there wouldn't be any more such ceremonies. They just need to keep the nosecone dry. And of course the officer screams in response about RAIN!
And now something similar has become reality. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
I guess they should not have retired the A-6 Intruder.
For another million $s they could have put windshield wipers on it.
Sorry, but I’m not buying this BS story.
As long as the enemy limits their military operations to good weather what is the problem?
Why the hell was this made public? Incompetence on all levels.
Still unnamed
Makes u go hmmm
I have a great solution.
Bring back the P-38 Lightning!
This is CRAZY!
The TBM-960 and TBM-910 are small, single engine turboprop passenger aircraft, and they have what’s called the HomeSafe™ emergency autoland function that — with the press of a conspicuously-placed, bright red button — automatically brings the airplane to a runway touchdown if the pilot is incapacitated. The freakin’ plane has the entire library of airports in a database onboard, and will find the nearest one, route to it, MAKE ALL THE APPROPRIATE RADIO CALLS AUTOMATICALLY, and get the craft onto the ground safely.
How the H - E - double hockey sticks does it come to be that our MOST ADVANCED military-side aircraft CANNOT execute this same function under control of some, separate, “hardened” core of internal hardware that takes over if the “main system” gets fritzed??
Da Hell do we PAY — THROUGH THE NOSE, mind you — this Military Industrial Complex FOR, if not to STAY on the very leading edge of all these critical technologies, and INCORPORATE them into our battle-ready systems so we have THE VERY BEST hardware on the sky, on the land, on the sea, and beneath it at any given point in time??
I guess the version that could fly in storms was $100M a pop, and we decided to save some money.
just more lies.....more coverup....we will probably never know what really happened.
Well, MARINE is an acronym for My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment. It was a bad idea giving jar heads their own jets.
When I first saw the complexity of an F35 on the ground doing pre-flight control checks for the cameras, it was VERY PRETTY. But something in the back of my mind was screaming, ”BUT CAN THEY FIGHT?” , like Donald Sutherland asked in the Dirty Dozen movie where he was pretending to be a general.
Apparently only in good weather.
The rumors I had been told was that it was shot down by some redneck militia out in the woods with a fifty caliber rifle. Not sure what would be worse for sales.