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I mean, stealth is all very well when nobody's ejected. But shouldn't an ejection trigger some sort of beacon? We probably want to find the pilot, after all. Y
by michaelt 2y ago
I mean, stealth is all very well when nobody's ejected. But shouldn't an ejection trigger some sort of beacon? We probably want to find the pilot, after all.
You'd think the military's budget could stretch to a $300 Garmin InReach.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago> We probably want to find the pilot, after all. You don't want the enemy to find the pilot. That's why pilots carry these, which they can use when it's operationally safe for them to do so. https://gdmissionsystems.com/products/communications/radios/combat-search-and-rescue-radios/hook3-combat-survival-radio https://gdmissionsystems.com/products/communications/radios/...
- talldayo 2y agoYep, and you also don't want your enemy to find the crashed plane before friendly forces have the opportunity to destroy it. If an F-35 crashed over foreign soil, an actively transmitting transponder would be a nightmare scenario for friendly forces that intend to scuttle the remains. Nobody wants another RQ-170 incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel#Iranian_capture_and_reverse_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentine...
- ssl-3 2y agoYou also don't want the enemy to find the plane (crashed or not, peacetime or not, attended or not).
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