United States Marine Corps

[Sandhi Yudha]

The pilot ejected successfully, but the USMC F-35 crashed somewhere in South-Carolina and the jetfighter is now unfindable.

F-35 zoek nadat piloot schietstoel had gebruikt in VS

Het gevechtsvliegtuig steeg op vanaf een vliegbasis in het zuiden van de staat South Carolina. Het toestel maakte deel uit van een trainingsmissie.

nos.nl

 

[ngatimozart]

The pilot ejected successfully, but the USMC F-35 crashed somewhere in South-Carolina and the jetfighter is now unfindable.

F-35 zoek nadat piloot schietstoel had gebruikt in VS

Het gevechtsvliegtuig steeg op vanaf een vliegbasis in het zuiden van de staat South Carolina. Het toestel maakte deel uit van een trainingsmissie.

nos.nl

Lots of memes doing the rounds about this. Mostly revolving around a lost poster. Some are even humorous.

 

[StobieWan]

To be fair, almost anything lost from the air in SC, never gets found. They're still missing a nuclear bomb or two from the sixties I believe.

 

[MARKMILES77]

13 complete hull losses out of around 400 ever built. Most of those resulted in fatalities.
Not to mention many other non hull loss accidents.
That is, 1 in every 30 V-22s built has been involved in a major accident, SO FAR.
That seems ridiculously high to me.

Now 14 out of 400.
1 in 28!

 

[John Fedup]

Now 14 out of 400.
1 in 28!

As I mentioned in another, the US army’s V-280 must be more reliable as the build will be in the thousands.

 

[Sandhi Yudha]

As I mentioned in another, the US army’s V-280 must be more reliable as the build will be in the thousands.

Absolutely.
Also this time nobody survived the crash.

USAF Osprey crash transitions from a rescue to a recovery operation

USAF Osprey crash transitions from a rescue to a recovery operation On 5 December 2023, the USAF announced that after days of intensive, 24/7 search and rescue operations for eight...

www.scramble.nl

Lots of memes doing the rounds about this. Mostly revolving around a lost poster. Some are even humorous.

To be fair, almost anything lost from the air in SC, never gets found. They're still missing a nuclear bomb or two from the sixties I believe.

The good news is that the F-35B was found 30 hours later. So the chinese or Iranians didn't get the chance to recover it and take it home.

F-35 Jet Mystery Ends as Wreckage Is Found (Published 2023)

Debris was found north of Charleston, S.C., one day after a pilot on a training mission ejected and the military lost track of his jet.

www.nytimes.com

 

[John Fedup]

V-22s will be grounded according to this link. I guess Greyhounds will be needed to bring in F135 engines for awhile. This post could be in military aviation or the USN threads.

US orders grounding of entire V-22 Osprey fleet

US Naval Air Systems Command has revealed that it is instituting a grounding bulletin for all V-22 Osprey variants.

www.navaltoday.com

 

[OldNavy63]

The USMC Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D), commenced with a force of 200 Marines arriving in April 2012. MRF-D has grown over the years to now comprise 2,500 Marines and supporting elements. The attached USNI report is from a US perspective focussing on MRF-D and also the more recently established Marine Rotational Forces Southeast Asia (MRF-SEA).

Marine Deployment to Southeast Asia Highlights Roles for Force Design, Pacific Posturing - USNI News

The recent deployment to Southeast Asia of a contingent of Marines, who worked closely with U.S. and allied forces, helped advance some key concepts for operating in the Indo-Pacific during a potential conflict, the top commander said. The 200 Marines and sailors assigned to Marine Rotational...

news.usni.org