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Driven By The Passion For The Aircraft. Honoring The Men And Women Who Make Aviation Great. Livestreams, aviation news & coverage.

Salt Lake City, UT Se unió Mart 2017
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RampCheck Aviation@rampcheckglobal·
NEW HASHTAG ALERT 🚨 #YDKWTFYTA (use your imagination)
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Bill@NinersSF1·
@rampcheckglobal So let me guess, when FOX or NewsNation mention this it’s not making our military look bad ?
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Rett@USMarines73·
@rampcheckglobal @WeTheBrandon These clowns have no clue, live in a country that defends them yet laughs at shit like this. What a clown
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@rampcheckglobal What? Self restraint? Can't do it man... this is the internet... what are you thinking? 🤣😂🤣
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RampCheck Aviation@rampcheckglobal·
The odds this becomes Air Force One — or at the very least a military VIP transport? We’re sold!
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Thenewarea51@thenewarea51·
ADS-B was turned on for the B-1Bs today to appease the Twitter Randos. 🤓😎 #TeamRando
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