Lost a F-22.

[ZenOps]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101117/pl_afp/usmilitaryaircraft_20101117151222

Went off radar this morning, which means its assumed to have crashed.

That makes 2 out of 187 that have mysteriously fallen out of the sky since inception.

I dunno, its getting close to space shuttle type success rates.

[Aleks]

It's probably in Russia by now and US will have to send Clint Eastwood to go fetch it.

[ZenOps]

It would be tempting...

Not sure if he would have enough fuel to make it there without landing on the icesheet somewere and refueling.

Still, its retail value is well over $400 million (much more on the black market as a unique piece of military hardware)

Patriotism tends to take a back seat when half a billion is waved in your face.

[Xtrema]

F-22 lost to Russia.

F-35 plans are stolen.

Lots of fail from the military and contractors lately.

[broken_legs]

Originally posted by Aleks
It's probably in Russia by now and US will have to send Clint Eastwood to go fetch it.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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[SJW]

LOL @ Firefox You guys are old.

[G-ZUS]

What if Rob Anderson was flying it

[ZenOps]

Rob wouldn't fly an F-22 because he does not have the diplomatic skill necessary to bargain for anything better than an F-35 which is the cheaper version.

By my calculation: If the F-22 is failing at a rate of 2 per 128 or so in non-combat testing, I figure the inferior for export F-35 will be failing at a rate of 2 per 64 in testing. And probably a dozen or so per 64 in actual deployment.

Trillion dollar Glass jaw if I ever saw one. Still, a DOA rate of 10% is acceptable nowadays, especially for things like computers.

If I were Obama, I wouldn't sell Rob an AK-47 for anything less than $100,000 plus $25 per silver bullet.

(Kind of makes you wonder how much of a friend the US is - if they won't share their top of the line.)

Crappy US oversized tasteless strawberries! Destroy that trade some more Rob!

[darthVWader]

Plane has been found now lets hope they find the pilot OK

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20101118/161384680.html

[911fever]

Originally posted by darthVWader
Plane has been found now lets hope they find the pilot OK

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20101118/161384680.html

ah I hope so!

[DayGlow]

Originally posted by ZenOps
Rob wouldn't fly an F-22 because he does not have the diplomatic skill necessary to bargain for anything better than an F-35 which is the cheaper version.

By my calculation: If the F-22 is failing at a rate of 2 per 128 or so in non-combat testing, I figure the inferior for export F-35 will be failing at a rate of 2 per 64 in testing. And probably a dozen or so per 64 in actual deployment.

Trillion dollar Glass jaw if I ever saw one. Still, a DOA rate of 10% is acceptable nowadays, especially for things like computers.

If I were Obama, I wouldn't sell Rob an AK-47 for anything less than $100,000 plus $25 per silver bullet.

(Kind of makes you wonder how much of a friend the US is - if they won't share their top of the line.)

Crappy US oversized tasteless strawberries! Destroy that trade some more Rob!

So it will be an improvement over the 17 of 138 CF-18's we've lost?

[sabad66]

Random fact about these things from the wiki:

It is going to cost the US Air Force $8 billion dollars to upgrade the software installed on the 183 jets to version 3.2.

Is it just me or does that not sound insane?

[colsankey]

everyone in the defense indusry wants their cut.. at least they dont have a windows OS on there.

[98type_r]

Originally posted by DayGlow


So it will be an improvement over the 17 of 138 CF-18's we've lost?

Considering that the CF-18's have been in service since 1978, that's a pretty good record isn't it?