this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's good and not. The good thing is they found it, but the bad thing is that the autopilot still needs some work.

It's not really an autopilot if it crashes after pilot ejects.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

I'm assuming the pilot didn't eject from a perfectly good aircraft, so we can't necessarily blame the autopilot.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think they do auto-landings.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't, but the autopilot could use some tweaks. Like turning on a transponder after an ejection while on a training run.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's surprising they didn't know exactly where it was at all times. I'd assume it already had GPS transmitter or something on? Maybe they don't, for stealth. But wouldn't the FAA know where it is?

[–] jonne 4 points 2 years ago

Also not very stealthy if they found it after all /s

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

"please contact the marines"... How does that work? Does every U.S. citizen have a "call the marines" card in order one of you ~~finds oil in a country with a weaker military~~ spots some country that urgently needs some democracy?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amazing to me they can lose something that big over mainland USA.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much would it freak you out of I told you that they've lost several nukes over the last 80 years as well?

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

looks at Russia

Yeah, they lost it

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like one episode from ghost in the shell