The f-35 successfully performed an emergency landing at a undisclosed US base in the Middle East
Ozymandias1320 on
What’s the source? News story I read said the an f35 was damaged and made an emergency landing
Separate_Job_9181 on
Was the f35 written off or is it just slightly damaged?
imnicexDDD on
F-35 is 1% of Iran’s yearly military budget
One-vs-1 on
No chaff no flares no crank. I don’t know what the MWS equivalent for fighters is, but this should be a big wakeup call. Buddy should name his first born pratt and the second whitney cause holy shit that thing swallowed some shrapnel and kept cookin.
Meanie_Cream_Cake on
Why not show the entire video? I call fake on this on. The video I mean not the incident.
dontrackmebro69 on
I call fake..too short no flair..no evasion
jackt-up on
Surprising this is allowed to be posted here
TheGoalkeeper on
Big if true
Physical-Cut-2334 on
I see a lot of paper work
SmallKiwi on
Anyone recognize the sights?
RuleSubverter on
Silly goose, the jet was clearly painted in the sky.
bertram85 on
If you go frame by frame right at the end the f-35 is shown still flying. I wonder if its defense mechanisms made the air defense missile explode or it hardly damaged the aircraft. Hence the statement by CENTCOM saying that it landed safely.
DonnyDonster on
I’m gonna call it now, Iranians will sell t-shirts with the words, “Sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible!” Then the pilot and the SAM operators became best friends after the war. Then Serbia sues Iran for copyright infringement and lastly, the Iranian-Slavic War starts.
withomps44 on
Looks fake as hell. Could be DCS for all we know.
Mowteng on
Well, they’re not invincible nor are they invisible.
Alexthelightnerd on
What system would this even be from? Tracking is clearly IR, and I expect missile guidance would need to be IR as well. The only systems like that I’m aware of are low altitude, where an F-35 has no business being.
Iran does have some novel missile systems though. Do they have high altitude IR SAMs?
ritmoon on
These seems odd. I’m assuming all kinds of bells and whistles would be going off in that cockpit. Looks like it’s just flying straight and level without taking any obvious defensive countermeasures. Am I wrong about that?
CharredScallions on
Thankfully, apparently it was still able to land, so it looks like the pilot made it back. I’m kind of surprised it didn’t go down
hifumiyo1 on
Yeah, an F-35 pilot gets a missile warning and just continues to flight straight and level. No countermeasures at all.
553l8008 on
“The completely destroyed and decimated enemy is still attacking in the war that was over before it started
jchall3 on
:06 videos with no aftermath are VERY suspicious. Final frame the jet appears to be fully intact. Not saying it’s fake but I would be surprised if it’s real.
CommercialFormal7614 on
I wonder if they’re flying in predictable paths like they did in Serbia
leetdemon on
Its real there are reports of one getting hit and making an emergency landing. Lucky shot.
Macquarrie1999 on
I do not think this is the actual footage
NormalfloridaCitizen on
Investing in this news
ggRavingGamer on
Doesnt matter if it was downed or not. It was damaged. The fact that a jank Iranian SAM managed to even get target acquisition on a f35 is insane.
WirelessWavetable on
No evasion and no flares… The F-35 can automatically deploy flares without pilot input and the pilot would be warned immediately after missile launch. Something doesn’t add up here.
T-14Hyperdrive on
Now you tell me F35 can just eat a missle and keep flying??? wtf
LigerSixOne on
The entire aircraft and exhaust plume perfectly washed out white with zero cool spots. The exhaust plume never changing shape at all despite turbulent airflow and a perfect black outline. I don’t think this is an actual video of an aircraft. Having both a radar lock and a visual lock on a single aircraft simultaneously when an impact occurs seems pretty unlikely.
DomitiusAhenobarbus_ on
I’m guessing the video is cut short because it kept flying considering it made it back to base. Problem is with AI now we can hardly ever trust video again. Only just now are we realizing this problem we’ve created
TheOriginalNukeGuy on
Is it normal for the plane to be one uniform colour on thermals like in the video? Shouldn’t the engine and its exhaust be significantly hotter than the rest of the airframe? Thats a bit odd.
halls_of_valhalla on
What is this Russian editing of combat videos…
jedidihah on
I totally believe that this is 100% legitimate, especially since the video ends almost immediately after the F-35 supposedly gets hit , and before having a chance to show anything resembling damage
Dry-Tangerine-4874 on
Not saying it didn’t happen. But it looks like a clip from a video game.
Onomontamo on
Could be optic passive seekers with the way it’s tracked with AI integration. No countermeasures would be possible and no warning.
NSStarScreamer on
Is this the animation where the roadrunner fires a rocket at the coyote?
HDTokyo on
I find it hard to believe the most advanced fighter jet made with more than qualified pilots decided to not make any defensive moves or flare deployments when I know damn well that jet is singing as soon as that missile was deployed and tracking.
PhysicsAndFinance85 on
An F35 was hit, but everything about this video screams fake.
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The f-35 successfully performed an emergency landing at a undisclosed US base in the Middle East
What’s the source? News story I read said the an f35 was damaged and made an emergency landing
Was the f35 written off or is it just slightly damaged?
F-35 is 1% of Iran’s yearly military budget
No chaff no flares no crank. I don’t know what the MWS equivalent for fighters is, but this should be a big wakeup call. Buddy should name his first born pratt and the second whitney cause holy shit that thing swallowed some shrapnel and kept cookin.
Why not show the entire video? I call fake on this on. The video I mean not the incident.
I call fake..too short no flair..no evasion
Surprising this is allowed to be posted here
Big if true
I see a lot of paper work
Anyone recognize the sights?
Silly goose, the jet was clearly painted in the sky.
If you go frame by frame right at the end the f-35 is shown still flying. I wonder if its defense mechanisms made the air defense missile explode or it hardly damaged the aircraft. Hence the statement by CENTCOM saying that it landed safely.
I’m gonna call it now, Iranians will sell t-shirts with the words, “Sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible!” Then the pilot and the SAM operators became best friends after the war. Then Serbia sues Iran for copyright infringement and lastly, the Iranian-Slavic War starts.
Looks fake as hell. Could be DCS for all we know.
Well, they’re not invincible nor are they invisible.
What system would this even be from? Tracking is clearly IR, and I expect missile guidance would need to be IR as well. The only systems like that I’m aware of are low altitude, where an F-35 has no business being.
Iran does have some novel missile systems though. Do they have high altitude IR SAMs?
These seems odd. I’m assuming all kinds of bells and whistles would be going off in that cockpit. Looks like it’s just flying straight and level without taking any obvious defensive countermeasures. Am I wrong about that?
Thankfully, apparently it was still able to land, so it looks like the pilot made it back. I’m kind of surprised it didn’t go down
Yeah, an F-35 pilot gets a missile warning and just continues to flight straight and level. No countermeasures at all.
“The completely destroyed and decimated enemy is still attacking in the war that was over before it started
:06 videos with no aftermath are VERY suspicious. Final frame the jet appears to be fully intact. Not saying it’s fake but I would be surprised if it’s real.
I wonder if they’re flying in predictable paths like they did in Serbia
Its real there are reports of one getting hit and making an emergency landing. Lucky shot.
I do not think this is the actual footage
Investing in this news
Doesnt matter if it was downed or not. It was damaged. The fact that a jank Iranian SAM managed to even get target acquisition on a f35 is insane.
No evasion and no flares… The F-35 can automatically deploy flares without pilot input and the pilot would be warned immediately after missile launch. Something doesn’t add up here.
Now you tell me F35 can just eat a missle and keep flying??? wtf
The entire aircraft and exhaust plume perfectly washed out white with zero cool spots. The exhaust plume never changing shape at all despite turbulent airflow and a perfect black outline. I don’t think this is an actual video of an aircraft. Having both a radar lock and a visual lock on a single aircraft simultaneously when an impact occurs seems pretty unlikely.
I’m guessing the video is cut short because it kept flying considering it made it back to base. Problem is with AI now we can hardly ever trust video again. Only just now are we realizing this problem we’ve created
Is it normal for the plane to be one uniform colour on thermals like in the video? Shouldn’t the engine and its exhaust be significantly hotter than the rest of the airframe? Thats a bit odd.
What is this Russian editing of combat videos…
I totally believe that this is 100% legitimate, especially since the video ends almost immediately after the F-35 supposedly gets hit , and before having a chance to show anything resembling damage
Not saying it didn’t happen. But it looks like a clip from a video game.
Could be optic passive seekers with the way it’s tracked with AI integration. No countermeasures would be possible and no warning.
Is this the animation where the roadrunner fires a rocket at the coyote?
I find it hard to believe the most advanced fighter jet made with more than qualified pilots decided to not make any defensive moves or flare deployments when I know damn well that jet is singing as soon as that missile was deployed and tracking.
An F35 was hit, but everything about this video screams fake.
Fake