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Old 18th Mar 2014, 18:25
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The US Military has cancelled its multi billion dollar research and development program into the next generation of stealth aircraft as they’ve discovered that simply turning off the transponder has the same effect…
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I've heard F-35 is cancelled as radars in the far east are only switched on between the hours of 9:00 - 17:00 and the radar operator isn't paying much attention to whats going on anyway.

Edit: As far fetched as it seems, I believe this scenario actually happened for real in the Six Day War between Egypt and Israel. When Egypt turned off it's air defence to prevent blue on blue during a vip flight, Israel conducted air strikes, the first wave alone destroyed 197 Egyptian aircraft caught on the ground.

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Could at least wait until they find out what's happened to the pax and crew before the jokes start !!!!
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F-117 back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvyaG7EIC18
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