The aircraft, designated AX-6, is the second F-35A assembled at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ F-35 Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility in Nagoya, Japan and is the first to be assigned to the JASDF’s 3rd Air Wing, 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan. JASDF’s 3rd Air Wing, 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan.
Business Insider: The US and Japan still can't find a missing F-35, and its 'secrets' may be in danger
* One week has passed since a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter mysteriously disappeared.
* Japanese authorities believe the fifth-generation stealth fighter crashed in the Pacific.
* The US and Japan have deployed high-end search and rescue and surveillance assets to find the missing pilot and his fighter jet, but so far, the allies have only been able to recover debris.
* "The F-35A is an airplane that contains a significant amount of secrets that need to be protected," Japan's defense minister said recently.
The US and Japan have been conducting a tireless, around-the-clock search for a missing F-35 for a week, but so far, they have yet to recover the downed fighter or its pilot. A life is on the line, and the "secrets" of the most expensive weapon in the world are lost somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter flown by 41-year-old Maj. Akinori Hosomi disappeared from radar last Tuesday, April 9. No distress signal was sent out as the aircraft vanished roughly 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base.
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Update: Japan, US struggle to find crashed F-35A stealth fighter jet to protect its high-tech 'secrets' (Straits Times/AFP/Reuters)
WNU Editor: Here are some facts on the F-35 program .... Factbox: The F-35 - stealthy, numerous and expensive (Reuters).
7 comments:
Weird i heard that had found it...
Yes, Something is afoul with this whole story; initial story said pilot was found and parts of the plane found.
I said it when it happened and I will say it again. It is already in the hands of the Chinese..
What if it was shot down?
By aliens?
This is like a sick superbowl ad for the Boeing F-35
The plane so stealthy, they couldn’t find it...
They should ask Wonder Woman for pointers.
Hit up the AA meetings around Metropolis. I don’t know. Sad for the pilots family.
If it were an ad it could still have a happy ending for pilot.
Maybe he stole it.
But what type of wreckage was found?
How do you explain the wreckage found?
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