Haven’t been to the GLP forums in a while, might go over there and see what those nutjobs think of this

Also wasnt this the plot for Broken Arrow

I just googled “can F35s carry nuclear bombs”. Not very reassuring

“The F-35A will soon fly with the upgraded B-61 Mod 12 nuclear bomb. This variant, in existence now for many years, integrates the operational capacity of several legacy long-term B-61 bomb variants into a single munition.” Apr 28, 2023

There is no way they carry live nukes for a training mission

F-35s are such a horrible boondoggle lmao

i could fkn swear that the MIC realized that the math is actually favorable if your product is chit and the gov't has to buy more, even if it results in deaths

then again, "never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence"

On February 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,600-pound nuclear bomb into waters off Tybee Island, Georgia after colliding with an F-86 fighter jet. At the time, the quantity of radioactive material, the destructiveness capability of the bomb, and whether it contained a dummy trigger were unclear. The bomb was found to be a 7,600 Mark 15 hydrogen thermonuclear bomb, which has an explosive yield of up to 3.8 megaton, about 190 times more powerful than the Fat Man bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945.

In the incident, a North American F-86 fighter Sabre jet, flown by pilot Lt. Clarence Stewart, accidentally collided with the Boeing B-47 Stratojet, flown by Col. Howard Richardson, during a training mission in which Stewart didn’t see the B-47 on the radar and descended into it. This caused the left wing of the F-86 to be ripped off and damaged the tanks of the B-47. Richardson was concerned the bomb would break loose from his plane and potentially detonate upon landing, so he jettisoned the bomb into waters around Wassaw Sound before safely landing at Hunter Air Force Base outside of Savannah. Stewart ejected and safely landed in a swamp.

A team of 100 Navy personnel equipped with handheld sonar conducted cable sweeps in search of the bomb immediately following the incident, but stopped on April 16 — more than two months after the accident — after failing to find it. Despite the government ending searches, the lost bomb is known among local residents and referred to as the “Tybee bomb.” In 2001, a hydrographic survey of Wassaw Sound revealed that the bomb was buried under five to 15 feet of silt. A 2001 report from the Air Force stated that if the bomb were still intact, the explosive in the bomb would pose no hazard. In 2004, retired Air Force pilot Derek Duke took interest in the matter and detected high radiation 7-10 times higher than normal one mile offshore Tybee, but this was later concluded to be due to naturally occurring minerals. Another government search in this location in 2004 after this discovery around the Wassaw Sound yielded no success.

Initially, experts disputed whether the bomb was nuclear or not. If it contains a plutonium core, it is a fully-functional nuclear weapon. If the core was replaced with a dummy, it would be non-nuclear but still capable of creating a conventional explosion. After the incident, the Air Force assured the public that the nuclear capsule was removed prior to the flight and fitted with a simulated 150-pound cap made of lead. This was widely accepted until documents from a 1966 Congressional testimony were released in 1994 and revealed the weapon was indeed a complete, fully-functional bomb with a plutonium pit. If this is true and the bomb does have a plutonium trigger, an above water explosion would have a fireball with a radius of more than one mile and thermal radiation for up to 10 times that distance.

Additionally, the declassified 1966 report discussed another lost nuclear weapon incident from 1965 in the western Pacific in which a plane had gone over the side of an aircraft carrier in 2,700 fathoms. The aircraft, pilot, and weapon were never found. The United States is reportedly missing six nuclear bombs to date. Although there were rumors that the bomb was retrieved by a Soviet submarine, no evidence has been found to support this, so it is still accepted that the Tybee bomb remains in its original dropped location.

99% chance no but there are folks in military training that think training exercises have to be “real” to be effective. Logic would dictate no payload but who tf knows. They do a lot of dumb chit in training that gets folks killed.

Has this thing been found yet?

Biden's America Airforce, folks.

Scary! Tybee Island is really pretty too, be a shame if it exploded

Wow.

Unfortunately it doesn't say what the impact would be if it went off under water. Could be some tsunami kind of scenario again.

FIFY
Stay in character pls.

I sure 4chan are on it

Wow. It's still missing as of this morning.

Rachel is on this brahs...

This is what happens when you let trannys design your chitty "next gen" plane. China and Russia are laughing their asses off.

I’ll check down the back of the couch after work

DoD ineptness on full display

DoD ineptness because they designed a plane that can fly itself without a pilot, and it's so stealthy even their own radar systems can't track it? Seems like it's working as intended.

Well, at least the pilot can get transgender surgery. That's the important part of all of this. Why don't you bunch of bigots think about that instead of all the negative?

That would make sense, as they can never remember where they parked the car.

Obvious AI take over obvious...

Plane ejects pilot... Keeps flying... Transponder is off...

Skynet gonna skynet.

Chit got hacked.

biden probably sold it to china

Ghost of Kiev needed a new ride.

1958. Accidents like this are why Operation Chrome Dome was ended.

Das it

Hmm let me check my personal satellite ill lyk if I see anything

I'll let my neighbors know to keep their eyes peeled too

how the fukc do you lose a jetfighter

Gonna need to know the nature of the "mishap" that would cause a pilot to eject from a plane that seemingly was able to continue flying for an extended period of time.
Might be a legit reason, but seems a little weird. Wasn't this the plane that originally kept causing pilots to black out because of glitches with the oxygen system?