Thread 63867887

>A British F-35B stealth fighter remains grounded at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in India, six days after an emergency landing forced by a suspected hydraulic failure.
https://defence-blog.com/british-f-35-still-grounded-at-indian-airport/

Is this a deliberate tech-transfer where the F-35 is 'accidentally' left for India to study?

>it got wet
it's broken. Call locksneed and pay the fee: 30 million plus tip

>Thiruvananthapuram
polish tier language

>>63867887 (OP)
>F-35 covered in sensors
>Reports back to Lockheed Martin
>If problem reported new part or fix shipped out
>Lockheed Martin support doesn’t ship to India

>>63867887 (OP)
>literal tears in the rain

>>63867887 (OP)
This is a photo of it today, after 6 days of vacation in INDIA

>>63868192
They pooed on it, it’s over

>>63867887 (OP)
embarrasing

>>63868192
what the fuck poojeets…

>>63867887 (OP)
Doesn't india have S400? awkward

>>63868192
> poo fighter
truly over

Indians are of low caste. They are not allowed to touch British stuff.

>>63867887 (OP)
GOOOOOOOOOAL

>>63868192
Kek
Funny but no that's not the same one.

>>63868341
They were offered a smelly hangar but the Britisher engineers refused.

>>63868192
>rust on stealth coat
Damn F-35 is actually trash

>>63868341
Didn't the angloids have a jeet pm a year ago

>Sources said The RN F-35B, which was operating from an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean, requested permission for emergency landing after it became low on fuel. The fighter jet made repeated attempts to land on the carrier but rough sea conditions prevented that happening, forcing the pilot to seek permission to land at the airport for refuelling.

>Mommy I cannot land it's raining outside

>>63868463
and it was the final coup de grace to the conservative party, so they're not making that mistake again

Can someone edit the "Equipment of the Indian Air Force" and add 1 F-35B?

>>63868580
Be the wikipedia vandalism you want to see in the world.

>>63868594
it's locked

>>63868602
They're only semi-protected, you just need to make an account.
Or are you asking someone else to burn their account for you because you're too lazy to make your own?
In which case, fuck you anon.

>>63868573
You might want to look up the current leader of the Conservatives.

>Fighter jets broken
>Airbases unguarded
Absolute state of britbongs

>>63868192
Maintainers walk all over aircraft whose flat finished stain easily. Why does your ignorant self imagine this is somehow important?

>>63868382
That's not "rust" and the numb digger who so imagined should be gassed.

>>63868557
That's a fucking ordinary weather divert you dumb shit.

are f-35 looking too good lately? oh no, cook up some retarded shill post quick!

>>63868896
>all weather combat aircraft
>cannot operate in anything more than a light drizzle
lmao

>>63867887 (OP)
>f-35b lands in emergency
>pajeets can't even touch
>all of their medias and forums are screaming on how they have cracked the "stealth code' and that stealth is useless because they could detect a non stealth loadout f-35
someone please nuke this shithole

>>63869360
It's got Luneburg lenses on too.

>>63868948
>Hydraulic issue
>Lands safely
>But all weather blah blah
You do realise the "can't go in heavy weather" is bullshit, RAM coating is damaged by heavy rain at high speeds naturally, sure, but that doesn't mean it can't still fly in it, it's just the attrition rate of the skin is faster.
This is the same problem that all stealth aircraft have.

>>63868192
>Poo Fighters
THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST

>>63867887 (OP)
it's not just the fighter that's stuck.
the whole british carrier group is still there and won't sail back for iran.

>>63867887 (OP)
I see that we must all suffer once again for VTOL's sins.

>>63868871
these are the same people who post pics of rusty USN ships who've been out at sea for months and say amelica is a failing empire

>>63869451
Damn, that takes me back.

>>63868192
>>63868382
https://youtu.be/ohlW9SbhLzc?si=5NHHnlpMR0XZcvOY
This is private footage from the pilot.

>>63868854
>Jet-fighter's broken
>Airbases' frozen
I've even forgotten
MY NAAAAAME

>>63869449
>designed to land on an aircraft carrier
>cannot land on the carrier if the jet's feefees are hurt
Cucksneed Fartin pulled a fast one

>>63867887 (OP)
It looks like its got a missile on it. I hope its a dummy missile. We really are entering an era of declining standards.

>>63871539
It can land of the carrier? It declared emergency because it wasn't near the carrier when the issue happened.

>>63867887 (OP)
Letting the Brits have it was a mistake. This is the second time they've allowed an F-35 to be potentially taken by a non-treaty state. The first time because the retards left an engine intake blank installed.

>>63871689
Brits made a lot of the crucial components for it during development and still are, recently though one of the courts almost did a Germany and ended all F35 production if the planes were going to be used in war, judge found against the pro-Palestinians who brought it to the court.

>>63871694
>Brits made a lot of the crucial components for it during development and still are
Should have had American companies do it but oh well, too late now.

>>63871699
They funded 10% of the initial development cost and later bought the planes, and the judge ordered against the plantiffs so there is no problem?

>>63871689
>they've allowed
Anon, the US landed an F35 in India this year. The gloves are off.

>>63871670
It ran out of fuel from repeated attempts at landing and failing. Declared emergency and diverted to wherever it is now.

>>63871705
Because as I've mentioned, this is the second time they have been unable to recover a plane in a timely manner for non-combat reasons. No doubt some jeet contractors for Russia are checking it out as we speak.
>>63871710
The US didn't get it stranded there.

>>63871712
Yes, landing and failing due to a hydraulic issue, otherwise it would have taken off by now. It's had a group of bong engineers looking at it for a week so far trying to fix it to get it airborne.

Thiruvananthapuram has been designated as a diversion airfield for British naval aircraft operating in the region before the incident, it's not that weird or unexpected (According to chinese media).
The indians dont appear to be doing anything with the aircraft?
Besides, the Chinese are backing Pakistan, that's why the US is considering selling india F35's.

>>63871715
Russia can study it all they like, they can't build it

>>63871715
First time they had to recover it from the bottom of the sea.
Second time it landed on an uneasy allies airfield. Do you think India is in a position to steal an F35 politically kek, the bongs always had this airfield as an option for emergencies that's why they used it, and used it before.

Your Russian connection is farfetched? Their relationship is purely contractual, their diplomacy with the UK is still pretty strong, plus there are bong engineers there.
If the "Russians" wanted to steal anything regarding the stealth technology they would have had plenty of opportunity when a stealth drone was captured peacemeal by Iran kek.

Historically UK engineers have had lower crash rates on aircraft per flight hour than US engineers when comparing same for same, 2 aircraft is an anomaly.

>>63871715
>Implying the US safely recovers aircraft in a timely manner
>On 24 January 2022, a USN F-35C (tail number 169304) with VFA-147 suffered a ramp strike while landing on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and was lost overboard in the South China Sea. Seven crew members were injured, while the pilot ejected safely and was recovered from the water. On 2 March 2022, the aircraft was recovered from a depth of about 12,400 ft (3,780 m) with the aid of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and DSCV Picasso, a deep-diving ship.

>>63871749
We patroled the area and eventually recovered the airframe. Brits never managed to recover theirs and gave up.

>>63871699
>Should have had American companies do it

But they can't do it. Britain has expertise and tech the US doesn't and that includes the basics like stealth paint.

>>63871749
Why didn't PRC fish it out for themselves?

>>63871754
Why even lie lmao

>>63871757
>Britain has expertise and tech the US doesn't and that includes the basics like stealth paint.
But that's bullshit. Locksneed makes the F-22 stealth coating, for example. It's not beyond America to make the components. Companies around the world bid for contracts, and usually the cheapest one wins.

>>63871775
Don't engage with obvious bait anon.

>>63867923
Underrated

>>63871766
Because finding and recovering an aircraft at the bottom of the huge sea is very difficult, and is particularly difficult when you have no idea when or where it was lost by the USN.
The sea is massive, it took the bongs always week and a half to even find the F35 they dropped after they borrowed a US deep sea sonar pull drone they keep in Spain, though that one was near 4km under the sea so yeah not an easy spot amongst the sea floor rubble and flora. Specialist tools and so on.

It would be extremely difficult for the chinks to do it with the USN watching also. It wasn't dropped near the Chinese coast.

>>63871749
>ramp strike
Is that like a bird strike but woth rogue carriers instead of birds?

>>63871833
Kekked at the imagery, but no.
Pic rel. Basically the pilot fucked up and the wheels hit the edge of the deck.