How? He whole selling point of this plane is that it stays away from reach of enemies?
Soft_Author2593 on
this pic is obviously AI, as F-35 is invisible
Getafix69 on
I’m a bit suspicious of the carrier returning to port with “Accidental” fire damage a couple of days ago as well. Probably wouldn’t play well with the polls if it did get hit with something.
But yeah people tend to think Stealth is invisible to radar but that’s only true if the Jets maybe 20 miles away.
Reddit_username9873 on
Oh great waste of money MAGA! 5 refueling planes and now a F-35…. All just to keep a pedophile out of jail
kamalhusta10 on
Stealth technology meets Iranian shrapnel. That’s an expensive oops.
wpmason on
Sounds expensive.
FuckLex on
Are we winning yet?
_chip on
So.. If you can see it, shoot your shot. It looks like Iran purposely cut the video off right at detonation. So there’s a couple stills out showing right after the explosion. The jet is intact. Suggesting an explosion NEAR the jet. Yugoslavia did hit a Nighthawk.. so..
PacinoWig on
We can’t have universal health care, we can’t have functional infrastructure, we can’t have any relief from the insane cost of housing, but we can spend over a trillion dollars a year on the military in order to get dogwalked by a country with the GDP of Portugal
Prufrock_Lives on
We coulda had healthcare
DudeFilA on
Don’t know why everyone is so up in arms about this. It’s been operating in theater for 3 weeks and it’s the first one hit. I know we like our propaganda about “stealth” things like they’re supposed to never be seen on radar, etc, but that’s not how it works. Comparing other platforms in other wars, i’d say 1 lost over hundreds, if not thousands, of sorties in 3 weeks is a pretty damn good record.
sfled on
>Lockheed Martin’s fifth generation fighter comes in three main variants, and the program has moved from experimental lots costing well above $100 million per aircraft toward high volume production where recent average flyaway prices cluster around $82.5 million for the F-35A, $109 million for the F-35B and about $102.1 million for the F-35C, figures that exclude the engine, which currently adds roughly $20.4 million per jet in Lot 18.
I’m guessing repairs on this thing is not already part of the $200 billion dollars that they’re wanting to prosecute this war.
OpenDaCloset on
“Sources say”
A_door__ajar on
You can say struck by a missile. We’re adults.
Key-Employee3584 on
The Golden BB always has a say.
dildo_of_justice4135 on
How’s that war going?!
jimibimi on
More of my money, and yours, wasted
OKWINEFAN on
5 planes at how many millions????
Never mind the incalculable loss of 6 service members.
May their memories be a blessing to all that know them.
🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
Incomitatum on
When your Husband, the one who Keeps you, Kicks the crap out of the folks next-door; when he’s shitting in some yard other-than-his-own, do not be surprised when you catch Reparations (Justice is folklore).
After 100+ years if these meat-heads dont’ know who they “serve” they are not owed an Education.
For each dip-shit that stayed in after they called it The Department of War: they are ALL MAGA now. No two ways about it. The time for action was when they saw Drumph “do a Jan 6th”. They are all now, sonsabitches.
What if we had a WAR, and no one showed up?
The stories us “Americans” tell ourselves to worship The Troops are weird: they require we overlook nearly 100 years of abuse and neglect: while the Aristocracy has held steady in their disdain for those who clean up their mess.
The Rich know: Oaths are for Suckers.
Veterans-day brought out all the tired-narratives about how certain Suckers fought-and-died for free-dumb; but those were all bad-faith conflicts coerced by corporate daddies (Something we’ve known since Vietnam).
It wasn’t your Military that fought at home to bring you worker’s rights; in some cases they’ve even been used in place of Pinkertons to break the will of their own People.
• 1794 – Right to form a trade union
• 1842 – Right to organize and strike legally
• 1866 – Right to national-level worker advocacy
• 1877 – Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• 1882 – Public recognition of labor’s legitimacy (Labor Day)
• 1898 – Battle of Virden
• 1898 – Protection from union blacklists (rail workers)
• 1909 – Right to safer, fairer garment-shop conditions
• 1911 – Right to stronger fire and factory safety standards
• 1912–1921 – West Virginia Coal Wars
• 1913 – Federal representation for workers (Department of Labor)
• 1916 – Limits on child labor
• 1916 – Everett Massacre
• 1921 – Greater leverage and protections for coal miners (Blair Mountain)
• 1925 – Right to effective union representation for Black workers
• 1926 – Guaranteed organizing rights for rail workers
• 1931 – Right to a prevailing wage on federal projects
• 1932 – Protection for peaceful strikes and union membership
• 1941 – Protection from discrimination in defense industries
• 1962 – Federal workers’ right to unionize and bargain
• 1963 – Right to equal pay for equal work (gender)
• 1964 – Right to a discrimination-free workplace (civil rights)
• 1967 – Protection from age discrimination
• 1970 – Right to a safe and healthful workplace
• 1974 – Protection of private-sector pensions (ERISA)
• 1988 – Advance notice of mass layoffs and plant closings (WARN)
• 1990 – Rights and accommodations for workers with disabilities (ADA)
• 1993 – Job-protected family and medical leave (FMLA)
• 2009 – Stronger right to challenge pay discrimination (Ledbetter Act)
You woke up in a simulated-economy that masquerades as chattel-slavery; The Military is an extension of The Ruling Class, and what you get when you wrap depressed-wages up-in personal-insecurity.
They love to get a tin-star for saying they “served”, they never love to think-critically about WHAT they have actually “served” us People.
Time to tell them to send it back to the Kitchen. It was never Nutritious.
YOU serve this country far more constructively every day, with your obligation to keep circulating it’s money. We, the Gross National Product.
Veterans have not made themselves worthy of our default respect and veneration. Let’s honor them by them by making far fewer from now on.
ACAB – yeah that means our “world police” as well. It’s ALL Cosplay (Hogs in costumes that give them right to kill), certified by your Betters.
It wasn’t The Troops that died for your Rights. They died for the whims of Oligarchs. You’re thinking Lefties, Labor, Librarians, Lesbians, and Luddites. All so you can still hug your kids at the end of a 40-hour week.
Your Betters do not trust you with more. Serve no Masters.
Taiwan_Lanister on
There goes my free healthcare preschool and college tuition
ebfortin on
If the Iranians wait long enough most of the F-35 will be in maintenance.
GL2U22 on
Can’t be from any Iranian anti-aircraft weapons though, those were all completely destroyed a couple weeks ago, right?
Iron-Peregrine on
This is the risk associated with highly expensive technology. It requires maintaining the reputation. You only need one bad day to challenge the narrative. The contrasting strategy is to deploy cheap disposable assets.
sundaygolfer269 on
I thought the F-35 was supposed to be the latest and greatest technology. But if it can still be hit, then why not buy the Saab Gripen instead? It is faster, far cheaper to buy, cheaper to fly, cheaper to repair, and you are not dependent on Trump permission to unlock or use its full capabilities.
Eh? Canada
SAAB Gripen
$25,000 per flight
$80 million
The F-35 is the most fucking expensive jet ever thought of was hit by Iran. This Jet has the most sophisticated weapons and protection system ever devised was hit by Iran!!!
$42,000 per flight
Fucking helmet $400,000
$109 million each
$2 trillion total cost over the program lifetime
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How? He whole selling point of this plane is that it stays away from reach of enemies?
this pic is obviously AI, as F-35 is invisible
I’m a bit suspicious of the carrier returning to port with “Accidental” fire damage a couple of days ago as well. Probably wouldn’t play well with the polls if it did get hit with something.
But yeah people tend to think Stealth is invisible to radar but that’s only true if the Jets maybe 20 miles away.
Oh great waste of money MAGA! 5 refueling planes and now a F-35…. All just to keep a pedophile out of jail
Stealth technology meets Iranian shrapnel. That’s an expensive oops.
Sounds expensive.
Are we winning yet?
So.. If you can see it, shoot your shot. It looks like Iran purposely cut the video off right at detonation. So there’s a couple stills out showing right after the explosion. The jet is intact. Suggesting an explosion NEAR the jet. Yugoslavia did hit a Nighthawk.. so..
We can’t have universal health care, we can’t have functional infrastructure, we can’t have any relief from the insane cost of housing, but we can spend over a trillion dollars a year on the military in order to get dogwalked by a country with the GDP of Portugal
We coulda had healthcare
Don’t know why everyone is so up in arms about this. It’s been operating in theater for 3 weeks and it’s the first one hit. I know we like our propaganda about “stealth” things like they’re supposed to never be seen on radar, etc, but that’s not how it works. Comparing other platforms in other wars, i’d say 1 lost over hundreds, if not thousands, of sorties in 3 weeks is a pretty damn good record.
>Lockheed Martin’s fifth generation fighter comes in three main variants, and the program has moved from experimental lots costing well above $100 million per aircraft toward high volume production where recent average flyaway prices cluster around $82.5 million for the F-35A, $109 million for the F-35B and about $102.1 million for the F-35C, figures that exclude the engine, which currently adds roughly $20.4 million per jet in Lot 18.
>Reported cost: $5,800.00 – $27,000.00 per flight
Source: The Pricer – https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-does-an-f-35-jet-cost/
I’m guessing repairs on this thing is not already part of the $200 billion dollars that they’re wanting to prosecute this war.
“Sources say”
You can say struck by a missile. We’re adults.
The Golden BB always has a say.
How’s that war going?!
More of my money, and yours, wasted
5 planes at how many millions????
Never mind the incalculable loss of 6 service members.
May their memories be a blessing to all that know them.
🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
When your Husband, the one who Keeps you, Kicks the crap out of the folks next-door; when he’s shitting in some yard other-than-his-own, do not be surprised when you catch Reparations (Justice is folklore).
After 100+ years if these meat-heads dont’ know who they “serve” they are not owed an Education.
For each dip-shit that stayed in after they called it The Department of War: they are ALL MAGA now. No two ways about it. The time for action was when they saw Drumph “do a Jan 6th”. They are all now, sonsabitches.
What if we had a WAR, and no one showed up?
The stories us “Americans” tell ourselves to worship The Troops are weird: they require we overlook nearly 100 years of abuse and neglect: while the Aristocracy has held steady in their disdain for those who clean up their mess.
The Rich know: Oaths are for Suckers.
Veterans-day brought out all the tired-narratives about how certain Suckers fought-and-died for free-dumb; but those were all bad-faith conflicts coerced by corporate daddies (Something we’ve known since Vietnam).
It wasn’t your Military that fought at home to bring you worker’s rights; in some cases they’ve even been used in place of Pinkertons to break the will of their own People.
• 1794 – Right to form a trade union
• 1842 – Right to organize and strike legally
• 1866 – Right to national-level worker advocacy
• 1877 – Great Railroad Strike of 1877
• 1882 – Public recognition of labor’s legitimacy (Labor Day)
• 1898 – Battle of Virden
• 1898 – Protection from union blacklists (rail workers)
• 1909 – Right to safer, fairer garment-shop conditions
• 1911 – Right to stronger fire and factory safety standards
• 1912–1921 – West Virginia Coal Wars
• 1913 – Federal representation for workers (Department of Labor)
• 1916 – Limits on child labor
• 1916 – Everett Massacre
• 1921 – Greater leverage and protections for coal miners (Blair Mountain)
• 1925 – Right to effective union representation for Black workers
• 1926 – Guaranteed organizing rights for rail workers
• 1931 – Right to a prevailing wage on federal projects
• 1932 – Protection for peaceful strikes and union membership
• 1933 – Cabinet-level pro-labor leadership (Frances Perkins)
• 1933 – Workers’ rights embedded in federal policy (New Deal labor agenda)
• 1934 – Auto-Lite Strike (Toledo)
• 1935 – Core right to unionize and bargain collectively
• 1937 – Recognition and protections for auto workers
• 1938 – Federal minimum wage, 40-hour week, overtime, child-labor limits
• 1941 – Protection from discrimination in defense industries
• 1962 – Federal workers’ right to unionize and bargain
• 1963 – Right to equal pay for equal work (gender)
• 1964 – Right to a discrimination-free workplace (civil rights)
• 1967 – Protection from age discrimination
• 1970 – Right to a safe and healthful workplace
• 1974 – Protection of private-sector pensions (ERISA)
• 1988 – Advance notice of mass layoffs and plant closings (WARN)
• 1990 – Rights and accommodations for workers with disabilities (ADA)
• 1993 – Job-protected family and medical leave (FMLA)
• 2009 – Stronger right to challenge pay discrimination (Ledbetter Act)
You woke up in a simulated-economy that masquerades as chattel-slavery; The Military is an extension of The Ruling Class, and what you get when you wrap depressed-wages up-in personal-insecurity.
They love to get a tin-star for saying they “served”, they never love to think-critically about WHAT they have actually “served” us People.
Time to tell them to send it back to the Kitchen. It was never Nutritious.
YOU serve this country far more constructively every day, with your obligation to keep circulating it’s money. We, the Gross National Product.
Veterans have not made themselves worthy of our default respect and veneration. Let’s honor them by them by making far fewer from now on.
ACAB – yeah that means our “world police” as well. It’s ALL Cosplay (Hogs in costumes that give them right to kill), certified by your Betters.
It wasn’t The Troops that died for your Rights. They died for the whims of Oligarchs. You’re thinking Lefties, Labor, Librarians, Lesbians, and Luddites. All so you can still hug your kids at the end of a 40-hour week.
Your Betters do not trust you with more. Serve no Masters.
There goes my free healthcare preschool and college tuition
If the Iranians wait long enough most of the F-35 will be in maintenance.
Can’t be from any Iranian anti-aircraft weapons though, those were all completely destroyed a couple weeks ago, right?
This is the risk associated with highly expensive technology. It requires maintaining the reputation. You only need one bad day to challenge the narrative. The contrasting strategy is to deploy cheap disposable assets.
I thought the F-35 was supposed to be the latest and greatest technology. But if it can still be hit, then why not buy the Saab Gripen instead? It is faster, far cheaper to buy, cheaper to fly, cheaper to repair, and you are not dependent on Trump permission to unlock or use its full capabilities.
Eh? Canada
SAAB Gripen
$25,000 per flight
$80 million
The F-35 is the most fucking expensive jet ever thought of was hit by Iran. This Jet has the most sophisticated weapons and protection system ever devised was hit by Iran!!!
$42,000 per flight
Fucking helmet $400,000
$109 million each
$2 trillion total cost over the program lifetime
IRAN hit it !!!
Air superiority no longer. This war is cooked.