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The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Air Force Times: The F-35 Lightning II is so stealthy, pilots are facing an unusual challenge. They're having difficulty participating in some types of training exercises, a squadron commander told reporters Wednesday. During a recent exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, F-35 squadrons wanted to practice evading surface-to-air threats. There was just one problem: No one on the ground could track the plane. 'If they never saw us, they couldn't target us,' said Lt. Col. George Watkins, the commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The F-35s resorted to flipping on their transponders, used for FAA identification, so that simulated anti-air weapons could track the planes, Watkins said.
No, I just thought Slashdot describes itself as "News for Nerds", not "News for People Who Hate Black People." Carry on regardless; you will note that I never said you or your fellow Slashdoteers should stop using it. I simply registered surprise and shock that users of this site are inclined to casually employ racial slurs towards black people, which implies a certain sinister undercurrent.
Are nerds the sort of people who call black people n-words? Why? Or are you and your comrades merely interlopers from /pol/, Stormfront, or one of the other hangouts for white supremacists and their admirers, attempting to disseminate your disdain for black people on what initially seemed like a harmless tech news site?
Nice of you to double down on the racism. That way, nobody can handwave the gratuitous use of racial slurs on this website as being a mysterious, rare anomaly.
>What are you, a fucking overly-sensitive, delicate snowflake child?
No, just a black person who was wondering how an article allegedly about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter somehow turned into a discussion about "n-words".
I don't see what my sexuality has to do with anything, either.
I have another tiny question: does it please you to do this? Calling black people n-words, that is.
Do you usually do this in public? May I ask what race you are in real life?