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US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject
(www.theguardian.com)
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No expert, but I'd think tracking devices on military equipment would be a pretty bad idea... especially if you can't guarantee who else can pick up those signals.
The tracking device should be activated by remote encrypted signal. Then the F35 can passively listen before activating. Basically, the military needs to wander around the parking lot pressing their fob until the jet beeps its horn.
And what happens when your enemy steals your encryption keys? Because it will happen.
Military encryption hardware gets rekeyed pretty often.
There are EPIRBs that have impact switches and will activate in the event of a crash, but aren't meant to work underwater.
Big passenger jets have an underwater beacon of some type.
Even that might not be ideal on military equipment. In a war zone if your plane goes down you don't want to advertise to the enemy where to find it and the pilot.
Yeah, but this isn't a war zone. It's US territory. They should have transponders on the plane that can be switched off when going into an actual war zone.
They do.
There was no need to look for her affiliation after reading this reaction. Extremely professional and totally level headed, maybe she felt just like in a sitcom where they turn to the camera and say stuff like this before the laugh track comes.