If you stumble across a lost F-35B, the Marines would like to know....

[bfng3569]

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-cant-be-found-after-pilot-ejected

[TrustMe]

Aliens !!!

[Stuart Galbraith]

Try Ebay.

[Sardaukar]

Seems that thing is in this instance bit too stealthy

[urbanoid]

If you find a box of crayons in the cockpit, it means you found the correct F-35.

[sunday]

Well, it is a stealth plane, after all...

[Ivanhoe]

https://x.com/wpdeabc15/status/1703888976891846859?s=20

[Ivanhoe]

https://wpde.com/news/local/missing-f-35b-jet-search-lake-city-florence-county-joint-base-charleston-north-charleston-aircraft-marine-corps-beaufort-lake-moultrie-marion-south-carolina

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yes, yes put a tracking device in a stealth jet, what a truly awesome idea.

[DB]

Aside from it being fairly standard practice for "stealth" jets to carry removable radar reflectors to allow primary radar returns for deconfliction of civil navigation, they also carry IFF which can double as a secondary radar transponder for the same purpose. It's unlikely that the F-35 would have been undetected if it had been inside secondary radar coverage, so all joking aside, its being stealth will have nothing to do with its not being tracked.

[Harold Jones]

https://www.wfla.com/news/national/debris-from-missing-f-35-found-in-south-carolina-officials-say/

[shep854]

 

[bfng3569]

[Stuart Galbraith]

Chinese seem to have already found it.

 

[shep854]

 

[Ivanhoe]

 

[shep854]

The pilot sounded a bit rattled in the audio.  Understandable, considering he just got blasted out of an airplane.