F-35 Had To Maneuver To Evade Houthi Surface-To-Air Missile: U.S. Official

A U.S. F-35 stealth fighter had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid being hit by Houthi surface-to-air (SAM) missiles, a U.S. official told The War Zone.

“They got close enough that the [F-35] had to maneuver,” the official said.

The comments partially confirm earlier reporting by The New York Times about what transpired during the U.S. campaign against the Houthis, known as Operation Rough Rider, that was launched March 15.

“In those first 30 days, the Houthis shot down seven American MQ-9 drones (around $30 million each), hampering Central Command’s ability to track and strike the militant group,” the publication reported on Monday. “Several American F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet were nearly struck by Houthi air defenses, making real the possibility of American casualties, multiple U.S. officials said.”

The U.S. official we spoke with could not confirm that the F-16s came under fire.

“There is no indication that F-16s were targeted or anything got close to them during Operation Rough Rider, where they had to maneuver,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. “That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

The exact date of the incident was not provided. Also unclear is whether the F-35 in question was an Air Force variant or one flown by the Navy or Marines. While F-35As from Hill Air Force Base arrived in the Middle East in March, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, which is in the region, operates F-35C variants.

What SAM system did the Houthis use to target the F-35?:

How did the Houthis do It?:
twz.com/air/f-35-had-to-maneuver-to-evade-houthi-surface-to-air-missile-u-s-official

well yeah all the stealth coting in the world isn't going to help avoid a missile guided by vision

I can't believe aircraft had to do what it was designed to do, it's so over

It's funny because a single F-35 can annihilate those fucking hajis back to the Allah age

Iranian radar locked onto Israeli F-35s and forced them to retreat before delivering their strike package a while back. Seems American "stealth" was just a money grab for defense contractors.

How did the Houthis do It?

US is spending too much $$ on these advanced weapons that get BTFO by cheap shit drones

invisibility bros.....

It's funny because a single F-35 can annihilate those fucking hajis back to the Allah age

Clearly not.

lazy ass pilot actually had to do more than just fly in a straight line and push button to release payload

Woah! Srsly ... the pilot sure requires mental counceling after going through such an ordeal. :O

It can destroy the enemy

America gave up and lets the enemy still attack Israel

shiggy wiggy piggy

stealth jet

has to maneuver to avoid missile

STEALTH JET

Hahahahahahah

Elon Musk said these pieces of crap can be locked onto with an AI filter on low light sensitivity cameras

We need to know what this mission was.
F-35 is multi role so maybe it was not configured for the stealth mission set.
For example if you have something mounted on your external hardpoints you can say goodbye to stealth.

F35 will always just be a massive shekel laundering scheme, all for a relatively mediocre plane that is clownishly overpriced for the extent of upgrade in it's generation.
But yes, it clearly can effectively drop jdams onto sandniggers I guess.

whats wrong with their assforce?
havent they lost 3 from a carrier lately too.

they are all crap

Did they actually just confirm that stealth is a meme??

I also have to manouver to evade being detected while farting

Flag checks out.

man ducks to avoid punch

woman brakes to avoid rear end collision

rabbits starts running to avoid being eaten by cat

f35 maneuvers to avoid missile

op closes curtains to avoid sunlight

many such cases

And Musk knows jackshit about warfare. Most jet combat is beyond LoS, for one. During the time you're talking about, musk believed the future of jets was no stealth, no radar, no missiles, no speed, just turning and guns. He fell hard for the fighter jet mafia memes.

stealth is a meme

anybody who says this clearly doesn't know what they're talking about. why even bother opening your mouth?

Explain it then retard. Go ahead

The F-35 was supposedly so stealthy that It wouldn't need to do that.

Not him, but stealth isn't an invisibility "I win" cloak. It hampers the detection range and likelihood and makes it HARDER to get a lock, but it's not impossible by any means.
Stealth is the difference between a haymaker punch and some nigger getting up behind you and sucker punching you like the bitch they are. If you've kept your guard up, you can still prevent it. If you relax, you're gonna get hit.

go ask putin or xi.

explain this, i thought f35s were invisible

F-35 had to maneuver to avoid a missile

AMERICA LOST!!!!

Thousands of destroyed T-90Ms, T-80BVMs, Su-34s, Ka-50s and Mi-28s

1 million dead and wounded soldiers

RUSSIA WON!!!!!

The whole point of "stealth" was to be invisible to radar and thus not having to do this

It hampers the detection range and likelihood and makes it HARDER to get a lock

Oh I see, it makes it so much harder that some militias in the desert could almost hit it. Wow amazing!!!! Totally not a meme

nothing is invisible to radar. it's just creates a smaller signature.

if i keep pretending that Russia has YUGE losses then jewkraine wins

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I know, I know, there was a bloop on the radar. ITS OVER! THE WEST HAS FALLEN!

yet they couldn't hit any of the 40 year old stealth bombers. your argument is moot.

Plane is low vis, not invisible. Still didn't get shot down for a reason.

our newest "stealth" plane almost got shot down

b-but our 40 year old "stealth" bomber is totally invisible (just trust us on that goyim)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Stupidest mutts on the planet

I think you mean Muhammad age.

No, it was supposed to be stealthy enough to penetrate enemy airspace and deliver it's payload in the presence of air defenses.
The Nighthawk is almost completely invisible to fire control radar when it's bomb bay is closed, but this came at the expense of all of its flight characteristics, and the fact that it lights up like a Christmas tree when it opens it's bomb bay.

The F-35 is designed to return a small radar cross section to early warning radar, increasing it's odds of successfully surprising its target without sacrificing flight characteristics. Nobody but Russian shills parroting that old Serbian phrase think the F-35 is invisible. It's not designed to be. Encounters like this demonstrate that the theory behind it works in practice, that it can penetrate defended air space and avoid fire in ways that 4th gen aircraft could not.

stealth

i believe this article from the same website and author, but not this one

k? that's not my problem

You have to go back, pig.

world's first military buckbroken by sandniggers

again

LMAO

Sure, it just didn't want to.

It's hilarious how Anon Babble marks your real country.
Youll never be russian btw

almost got shot down by desert militia

ran away from desert militia

b-but it totally works bro!!!! We totally penetrated their defended airspace!!!

Kek

apparently it's some modified sa-6 and sa-11 with custom rockets and increased range of up to 70km which is no joke

how else do you think so many targets within yemen were hit? magic?

Memeflaggots are such a cancer

Barq

Thanks Obama.

silly anon, we are in the Allah age.

yeah totally

so this confirms that the F-35 is not really stealthy, but can be detected and tracked

Imagine the shock and disbelief when I tell you retards that a suppressor doesn't actually completely silence a gun

Yeah, radar has advanced to the point were a plane's design can't effectively hide its signature. This has been known for years.

t. coping Amerifat

Its OVER, CHUDS

you can cope all you want, but thats an awful analogy and you know it, a suppressor has a clear purpose you wont see regular frontline soldiers using it because of its drawbacks, the F-35 scarifies so much (range and weapon payload especially) for stealth and yet it turned out to be not only a meme but an extremely expensive one, 2 Trillion in fact

AHAHAHAHAHA THE Anon BabbleOPERS ARE OUT IN FORCE THIS MORNING

Why do people think that the F-35 is some kind of a wunderwaffe?
It's a 5th gen stealth plane designed to be harder to see for radars and radar guided missiles.
It's still has a big ass jet engine in the back, it's gonna get locked on by IR(heat-seeking) guided missiles as easily as any other jet.

Also if a F-35 is configured in the beast mode(weapons on wing pylons) it loses the radar stealth advantage, this is a well known fact, not some secret, kek.

So I see two possible scenarios

Carrier based USMC F-35B was in the beast mode and got picked by a radar

or it got locked on by a IR(Heat-seeking) missile

So a USMC F-35B probobly

beast mode(weapons on wing pylons

Why do people think that the F-35 is some kind of a wunderwaffe?

Because they overdosed on propaganda?

It's a 5th gen stealth plane designed to be harder to see for radars and radar guided missiles.

It's still has a big ass jet engine in the back, it's gonna get locked on by IR(heat-seeking) guided missiles as easily as any other jet

That's not how US advertised it. They presented it almost like some alien tech. And just look at your own pro-western pidors. How they masturbate to it, like it would totally destroy Russian forces completely unchecked. Meanwhile it shat itself running away from Houthis. Almost like launching glide bombs or missiles from afar is the only viable tactic these days, and we can see it in Ukraine.

Your standard JDAM is crap with such low range. And can you even fit in JDAM-ER inside?

They presented it almost like some alien tech

Maybe in early 2010s when they need to secure funds for R&D and testing.

literally any czrrent stealth plane can get locked on by IR missiles

no current stealth jet is 100% invisible on radar, if certain circumstances line up, a skilled radar opeatior can recognize stealth planes

I bet it was locked by this missile:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/358_missile

the f-35 had to come close to drop a JDAM and got ambushed by a heat seeker

Did they claim to be completely invisible? Still an obvious benefit if you can get twice as close to a radar before being seen compared to a non stealth plane.

Funny then that instead of doing so, it got spotted (US stealth lmao) and then had to turn tail and run like a coward. That is after all the american way: bully the weak and hide like a coward from the repercussions of your actions when the big boys enter the arena. Look at how badly you clowns got humiliated in Ukraine. Are still getting humiliated now that you have a McArab in charge. Then if anyone asks questions you use the media to memory-hole your fuckup. Catch is you can only do that so much before you look like how you are looking like these days: mangy, cowardly whiney little feral dogs. Because that is what americans are.

If the Houthis have show us anything at all is that the US military is a fucking joke. Why? Because the military industrial complex has been ripping you off for generations. Instead of a functional society, you have a few billionaires and instead of culture, you have niggers. Enjoy becoming a gigaslum in the next 20 years, loser.

Why should I hate these people?

i thought it had special design to absord radar waves and super tech coolants in the engine to hide heat signature?

you are fighting with guerillas of yemen. russia fights with force that gets funded supplied trained by whole west.

You are PROFOUNDLY retarded

On a plane with rounded surfaces it makes them look about the size of a bird.
The one issue with this is birds don't travel at 600mph.

guided missiles as easily as any other jet.

f35 has special cool shit to cooldown and lower heat signature though

Shut the fuck up, you clueless parasite.
Go get in a ditch where rats belong.

They need to invent some kind of fictionalized version of it so they have something to slide.
The best modernized Russian hardware destroyed by the tens of thousands in a real war? Don't worry about it
A US plane takes evasive maneuvers and completes its mission? XAXAXA ITS SO OVER

It's transparent.

This one's just an outright lie, by the way.
When Israel successfully struck Iran last year, they revealed after the fact that F-35s were involved in the strike. Prior, shills has touted the russian-supplied S-400s in Iran as their trump card that would negate Israeli air power, so the revelation that it has been utterly ineffective was humiliating.

Shills started this totally made up "we locked a wunderwaffe and scared it off" story to try and cushion the embarrassment of their vaunted anti-stealth system failing. Of course, "scared it off" was the best lie they could spare, because in reality there were provably no Israeli losses on that strike.

Theyre always one of the two races cursed by God

This is what, the third time you tried?

True, but still, if a F-35 gets close enough and/or shows the wrong angles, it'll be in danger.
It's not 100% radar and heat proof. A lot more than a 4th gen jet but not 100%

Ask your goy in the WH for a B2 bombing run

Claim it was your own export variant slip that did the heavy lifting

It’s really not hard to imagine. Especially since Mossad isn’t exactly known for telling the truth

When Israel successfully struck Iran last year

Lmao

is stealth actually a meme can some aerospace anon expand on that

this doesn't make any sense

it's invisible to the radar but VERY visible to IR. it simply means it can go undetected until it enters very close range, and usually missiles and glide bombs are launched from safe enough distance to avoid that altogether.
what probably happened is entering deep into enemy territory without real need, so - a fuckup.

It's literally like you've said.
It's kind of a ironic that USA weapons get hyped out the most by chinks, vatniks and muzzrat shitskins

your STAR WARS LEVEL ALIEN TEHNOLOGY lieterally invisible jet by naked eye had to dodge a missile!!11 XAXAXAXA

Based Israeli muzzrat devourer gets it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/358_missile

hyped out

Up*

flys backwards into the thread

how many reapers and f-18s have the cavemen destroyed?

Woah! Srsly ... the pilot sure requires mental counceling after going through such an ordeal. :O

Turns out a faggot jew isn't the best warrior. He is about as effective as french aristocrat that flees on the first sign of trouble. It turns out that your cuntry ends up losing all the wars if you piss off its fighting men and rely on pampered faggots that stomach the thought of dying in a war.

what

Screencap this. Not one faggot kike will fly into sandnigger airspace if they find out they now have effective SAM sites. They are fucking cowards, like wimpy aristocratic frenchmen. Fuck these faggots, shoot all those birds down so the world may be free from their blight.

Why do you think Trump made a deal with the Houthis?

speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. “That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

Trust me bro

Yes it's what planes do in war. Why is this a topic? It sounds like stupid snowflakes.

The F35 had to avoid fire. Yea. It's a warplane. It's why the pilots train in warplanes. They train to avoid enemy fire and fire at the enemy. You fucking dipshit.

The rest of what you wrote is a big stupid stinky turd.

The warplane avoided enemy fire. Yea. No shit.

Because Iran wants to be like Israel. And you shouldn't throw the shackles of Israeli chains just to put Iranian ones

You should see how many coincidences there are with People born to Persian families in the west and what they go on to subverse

You forgot an important detail, the F-35 is a stealth aircraft, whose main selling point is to not be trackable nor targetable by enemy SAMs compared with non-stealthy aircraft, which is why Its much more expensive and has much higher operating costs.

because your interest rates might go up if you don't.

shalom

Israelis have already done this in Iran using F-35s. lool

even after killing civilians and bragging about it, the US retreated.

Yes. We raised a White flag and bravely ran away.

retreating is raising a white flag and running away

Then why didn't it?

Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarity. You’re smart.

Ziggers and other assorted retards have been eating their own bullshit for too long, they actually think it's real

Would be hit if closer. Probably drop some tomahawks 300 miles from Yemen ang gtfo.

Houthis are the only muzzies I can fully respect. They just want to stay in their desert and fight ZOG and its golems.

Heard can't fly in rain.

Probably need to book a hearing test.

It would have 100% been shot down in 'Beast mode'. lmao.

b2 and f35 use active stealth but for proper function all components must be enabled
that is why they have so many "jamming" suites on their stealth planes
inb4 this is not public information and cobbled together from declassified bits and pieces

why would you want to strap a bunch of jdams onto a f35?
the point is that it's possible to do if you need to
flexibility
in practice they would just use GBU-53/B on the multirole planes and ALCMs on bombers and transport, combined with ground and sea launched tomahawks
look up golden horde

I heard your mom takes it in the ass for 5€.

Kek'd

Why?
It's DAS works the same regardless of the weapons load.

F-35 is designed to be stealthy from the front 180 degrees. It's very much visible from the rear. Our entire doctrine is built on progressive SEAD penetration such that an enemy's line is peeled like an onion by successive, iterative strike packages leading deeper and deeper. F-35 is not designed to be super attritable, but everything in war is going to have some element of risk. We're going to lose some birds in a hot war no matter what. It's not designed to be invincible... just highly, highly hardened. Which it is.

Wow.

...And in other news, I almost fucked Taylor Swift. My penis came within 100 yards of her. Close only counts in horseshoes, faggot... evidently, Iranian missiles aren't even as effective as a hand grenade.

What the fuck is this post?
Cope?
Bad mood?
Just ukrainian with no reading comprehension?
All 3?
A rare cossack jew?

at best, "stealth" is classic mistake of doing what you can do, VS being able to do what is needed to be successful.

Its like hiding from the cops in a cardboard box on the sidewalk, but the cops are walking towards you with police Bloodhound K-9.

Mil-Fags will tell you "Stealth can be detected but not good enough for missile lock" but also that only works at longer ranges. So the missile flies to general location until it gets close enough for lock.

damn
that means we have to spend another 5 trillion dollars in tax money to lockheed to build a better plane in order to safely blow up mud huts

Russian defending the effectiveness of American miltech

Ukrainian snarling and calling him a pig

What, is it opposite day?

it is stealth optimized frame for X Band radars
it is totally not stealth in L band or other bands

early warning radars do detect stealth crafts, then yes, all you do is fire a missile their direction and the missile locks itself

but what about russia

fucking obsessed

burgers forgot to tell the houthis the plane was invisible

Avoidable if burgers had any communications with them.
Do tell, what type of base system the houthis AA was made from?
Russian, Iranian, chinese or it was a homemade system?

How bro?? HOOW? How the fuck are illiterate desert nomads blowing up our state-of-the-art equipment like that