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[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Albuquerque? Is that a freaking Breaking Bad reference?

[–] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Finger@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago
[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago
[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how do you make a plane fly again? no I don't work for boeing

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

how do you make a plane fly again?

"Again??" --Boeing Execs

[–] someone@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

I think we need to give the engineers who designed and built the F-35 the benefit of the doubt in this case. It's entirely possible that the Marine pilot was distracted by malnourishment from a lack of crayons and glue that day.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Needing to refuel between Texas and California is an interesting design choice

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Wow, a new record flight! The boys down at HQ are really close to cracking this aircraft thing!

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Skill issue penguin-dance Issue of skill

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if the MIC will call it a pilot error even if it wasn't. Or is there such a thing as an ultra-mini insta-tornado?

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It hit a (Chinese) weather balloon

[–] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

CHINESE TORNADOES

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

lol, noted dangerous warzone Albuquerque

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

seems like a total loss, hell yeah. more praxis than I could hope to do in an entire lifetime

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

That leaves like what, only 1 more that can still fly? che-smile

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II#Accidents_and_notable_incidents

People were saying in 2000 that the F-35 was a bad engineering idea. When will the West admit defeat and say goodbye to the 4 trillion that's been spent on this thing?

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

idk how the fuck you could possibly spend 4 trillion fucking dollars on this bullshit

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Lockheed Martin? More like Flintlock Shartin

Just one more govt. contract bro, I promise bro, just one more contract and this plane will be combat ready bro, I promise bro, bro

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

We could have had a roubust space mining and logistics industry with that money. Be on our way to evolve as a species and make a huge dent in scarcity. Instead we decided to revamp the cold war and blow it all up to stay on oil.

[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Comrade Gravity - at it again!

o7 o7 o7

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

The f-35 does work, it's just best used as a suicide bomber.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone needs to make a mod for Half Life/Black Mesa that makes all the US jets and ospreys crash on their own

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago
[–] buh@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I hope the ground was ok