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F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by Workaccount2 »

safety1st wrote: post #136
ensignavenger wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"food insecurity" is not the same as starving.

I was wondering how 1 in 8 children could be experiencing food insecurity in a nation with a 40% obesity rate, and what food insecurity was exactly, so I poked around in their methodology a little. https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/M... Happy to be corrected if I'm misreading this. But if I understand correctly, they go into it on page 8, and there are basically two ways they calculate food i…

I've seen this before, you end up with a bunch of overweight households reporting that it's too expensive to maintain a 4500 calorie a day diet.

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by llm_nerd »

By reports this is one of the F35B variants, a VTOL capable jet. Like the V-22 Osprey, it is pushing mechanical complexity maybe too far and has been a program rife with troubles. Compared to the F35B, the normal variants have been essentially trouble free.

Trying to make a whole mechanical system to redirect 40500lbs of thrust isn't super reliable.

There is some sort of lesson there that applies to the software engineering realm.

EDIT: Ooof, looks like there are some VTOL fanatics in the house. Who knew that unreliable military hardware was a fetish.

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by Workaccount2 »

yabones wrote: post #88
lambersley wrote: post #74

$1.2T to OPERATE the F-35 program, yikes! I would love to see the TCO figures on an F-35 (or not). US Military budget concepts have always blown my mind.

Not to say $1.2T is nothing, but that's over the lifespan of the program. It's like if you paid for your car plus all the fuel, oil changes, spare parts, tires, car wash, toll roads, all up front. > $1.2 trillion to operate and maintain the fleet over more than 60 years.

Headlines kick harder when you leave out divisors.

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by codedokode »

gonzo41 wrote: post #114
tivert wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We know the JSF is a giant expensive computer. I wonder what code is in the exception block for when the plane is working but the pilot leaves. Maybe it does just try and gently crash somewhere. I doubt there's an exception block for that. What if there's a fault and it triggers while the pilot is still in the plane? > It's more surprising it didn't have some sort of phone home, become a drone, style fall back mech…

I think the Ukraine war and Russia's poor showing has proved that in some ways the west is overestimating the capabilities of it's enemies.

But the West also underestimates, for example, cheap Iranian drones that can be easily mass produced and cost much less than the missiles to shoot them down.

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Post by kkielhofner »

safety1st wrote: post #136
ensignavenger wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"food insecurity" is not the same as starving.

I was wondering how 1 in 8 children could be experiencing food insecurity in a nation with a 40% obesity rate, and what food insecurity was exactly, so I poked around in their methodology a little. https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/M... Happy to be corrected if I'm misreading this. But if I understand correctly, they go into it on page 8, and there are basically two ways they calculate food i…

It's paradoxical.

Historically wealthy and high status people were "fatter" and had pale skin. It signaled that you had ready access to food and didn't work outside.

Now high status people are thin/muscular and have tanner skin - cheap and quick food is terrible for you and it signals you have the time to workout, pay for a trainer/gym membership, go on vacation to sunny destinations, aren't chained to a desk/working retail, can pay for and have access to high quality and fresh foods, etc.

More and more high quality and healthy food is expensive and/or requires more time to prepare and plan. If you're shuffling between multiple minimum wage jobs you're often eating fast food all day because you either can't afford or don't have time for anything better.

Then start looking at food deserts[0]. Stop at a bodega in a poor neighborhood that serves as the only food source around and prepare to be shocked at the absolute garbage they have available that's still covered by SNAP.

[0] - https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts

Re: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

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Post by kjkjadksj »

kkielhofner wrote: post #121
IAmGraydon wrote: post #67

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It’s definitely BS. Transponders aside, the US has radar and near real-time satellite imagery of every square inch of American territory. There is a zero percent chance they don’t know where this plane is.

If you watch YouTube replay simulations[0] with ATC (air traffic control) when pilots violate a TFR (temporary flight restriction) for something like The President it's comical how long it takes for the interception fighters to find the target. It turns out the F-* radar is terrible at these kinds of situations. They almost always end up getting vectored in by air traffic control with their much more powerful ground…

The fighter response to 9/11 was proof enough of the incompetence of the modern american air defense system.

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Post by xhkkffbf »

btbuildem wrote: post #70

An 80's movie dream is playing out for some rural kids, where they stumble upon a smouldering high-tech wreckage and as they explore it, men in suits pour out of black SUVs and talk to them in taciturn ways. Seriously though, these jets sound terribly overpriced for how unreliable they seem to be.

My personal favorite is the short story "Night Rescue" from Bertrand Brinley's Mad Scientist Club books.

http://madscientistsclub.com/books.html

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Post by some_random »

tester756 wrote: post #163
genpfault wrote: post #140

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> Warthunder forum arguments Context: [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Documents_leaks

>In January 2023, Raytheon denied media reports that security clearance background checks for jobs at the defense contractor investigate whether applicants play War Thunder. wtf

A redditor lied on the internet and a bunch of second and third rate media sites parroted it, this is why we can't have nice things

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/10kqto9/ahoy/

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