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National Security & Defense

zipplewrath

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3. Badly worded

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2019, 09:44 AM

Apr 2019

Hard to tell here what they are saying. The plane would be hard to see on alot of radars, but it would likely be flying with a transponder so that it could be tracked. Did the F-35 turn off it's transponder? Was it flying to low to be detected? Was it descending? Ascending? Did it change direction prior to "disappearing"? Did they try to contact it? Were they ever in contact with it? Oh, and whose F-35 is it? Japan's? Did they send out a plane to look for it?

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Japan military says F-35 fighter jet disappears from radar [View all] Eugene Apr 2019 OP

Flown to Russia. LuvLoogie Apr 2019 #1

well it's a stealth plane qazplm135 Apr 2019 #2

Badly worded zipplewrath Apr 2019 #3

Update from time.com nitpicker Apr 2019 #4