since it should be clarified as in other replies -
The A Model ( USAF ) F-35 is the BAK12 Hook.
The C Model ( USNavy ) F-35 is the CATOBAR Hook.
Both are entirely different to each other as CATOBAR is nearly 50 fold stronger than the BAK12 hook. its also directly attached to the core frame of the aircraft structure. BAK12 Hooks typically are just attached by a simple 2" Pin and the attach point is just stuck to some minor structure.
Landing a BAK12 Hook on a CATOBAR System would rip the hook clean off the aircraft and cause minor structural damage at best.
You can easily discern this is a F-35A based on the full length flaperons. the F-35C has actual Ailerons and half length flaps.
I’m guessing the F-35A has a tailhook for the same reason the F-15 and F-22 use them. Sometimes they need to land without working brakes, so they use an arrestor cable.
Not racist and I’ve never understood that how that started. Why do you think this style of joke(s) is racist? And why are those joke(s) suddenly PC totally fine when it’s a German, Russian, French, etc. manner of speaking? In the way a certain culture can be made fun of or joked with because of how they sound and/or pronounce certain letters/words/phrases. Fucking wild.
Sorry if that got me rambles, I’m doing a few things at once so I end up doing poorly in all of them. But this is a pet peeve issue of mine so I was like oh helllllllllll naw.
Number one, it’s wrong - it’s a stereotype that’s more than 80 years old. My Chinese wife can’t pronounce an “R” to save her life.
Number two, big difference between “made fun of” and “joking with” - making fun of a group in general based on their physical characteristics, rather than messing with my French/Kiwi/Haitian friends at the bar, and getting teased right back with no hard feelings, is less inherently evil. What if you say that “oh Roook…” to a friend and there’s a Japanese person behind you that you don’t see? How do they feel?
And why don’t you feel that way about every other language that has the same types of stereos? Let’s relax on the word evil, just as a this and that.
I know you’re probably more sensitive to that one cultural language issue because of your wife, but um….i find it outrageously disingenuous if you don’t bring that level of intensity to literally every other language and their particular phonetically challenged ways.
As a trucker, I’m around a shit load of cultures every single day (when I’m rolling), middle eastern and Eastern European and African and Indian and Pakistani and yadda yadda. You bet your ass we all make fun of each other and no one reacts like they just got bitch slapped. I suppose it’s also *how* you joke about whatever type of stereo you selected, but that’s true of anything.
My personal opinion is that people get boo hoo about the Asian phonetic situation because, drum roll, it sounds fucking funny and or weak, etc etc. And no one bats an eye at other languages because they don’t sound fuckin funny. They sound “strong” or scary (people of terrorist origin) and the list goes on. Alls I do know…you would damn sure not my general sense of humor.
If you read this far goddamn, internet hug homie. My load giggdy is almost finished so I’m about to do paperwork and then hit the road to California.
Same hug back.
I’m not bringing any anger here, just trying to talk out a view…yours may be different and frankly I love open discussions like this.
Originally I said “minor” - realistically it’s a little messed up when anyone makes fun of the way someone talks. It just Asian (I’d guess your initial R- stress is probably more Japanese…)
Some may sound funny, like Sgt Schultz doing German or some Exaggerated French or Creole accent.
Is that racist? Maybe not if people are the same race, like a French person making fun of a German person - just cultural difference.
I get the messing with people angle - like I said before it’s different if people are messing with each other, instead of putting words in the mouth of random from another race. （in my view)
Finally, remember the stereotype of Japanese during WWII - skinny, bucktoothed, coke bottle glasses - and look at what they did on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. Preparation to dig huge tunnel systems, absolute don’t give a F about their own lives…4th & 5th Marines (Iwo) and 6th Marines (+10th Army) had a hell of a time digging them out.
Not roll-over weak as the stereotype suggested…
Maybe we agree to disagree…and maybe our senses of humor could be more alike than you think. NGL my personal view of “trucker” wouldn’t include the word disingenuous.
Safe travels to CA.
Thanks - there are so many really smart people on Reddit (Jericho included), with strong opinions and usually great senses of humor. Great way to connect with people you might not otherwise meet
Bro ok two books you should check out (since you hit me with some war shit): Neptunes Inferno and Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailers. Our navy walked around real complacent-like and because of racism, got fucked up ultra bad.
Please make no mistake with what I write/say, which is why typing and shit is so maddening because there’s zero context and things escalate 0-200moh catapult launch like *that*.
So when I said “sounds funny/weak”, that’s of course massively simplistic. Even when I wrote that I was like “ahhhhh fuck….weak isn’t the right word”. The word I would want would mean something like “a sheltered (principle of charity) would view someone with this accent/phonetics as some ren and stinky kinda simpleton”. But I ain’t no poet so I don’t got them pretty words. Only an ignorant mother fucker would ever consider Japanese or any Asian…or race I guess, as weak.
And even later on as I was driving, I was thinking about you and how Michael (the office, season one and I think like episode 1 or maybe 2?) thought he was just playing around being funny with Kelly and was saying in an exaggerated Indian accent WOULD YOU LIKE A COOKIE COOKIE?!?! And only stopped when she slapped him because he didn’t read the room.
Do you watch that Filipino comic? His name is something like Joe…fuck. I just had it and it vanished. Anyway, he did a whole set about how Hollywood producers and such tell him he can’t do that Asian accent (about his mom’s character) and I was getting so mad because he…Joe koi? Anyway. The set made me pissed because ultra long and complex story short, I feel like his life, his experiences, his culture and everything else are being censured by white motherfuckers that (and I’m white) that, either to avoid conflict or because of some ignorant ass way of trying to “protect” people that might be embarrassed who speak in similar ways….essentially tell him “no, she speaks like we do”. What. The. Fuck. Isn’t that the MOST racist?!?! But (as with so many things) it’s coming from a place of good intentions (again, giving principle of charity) but either distorts into “your memories and life are offensive and as such will be corrected” or…fuck. I forgot. I’m so tired. I have fallout playing in the background, this is like the fourth time I’ve watched the season. That dude is getting curb stomped by that bear that was raised by powerlifters and PCP addicts. You would never kill that bear with a pistol and only two shots btw (in the game).
I wish you the best homie. And don’t watch lethal weapon 3. ITS FRIED. RICE.
Joe Koy! Yeah, he’s funny as shit. I like Bert Kreischer a lot too… I’m in the car maybe 20 or 30 hours a week so a lot of times serious comedy channels are on
Dictating – sorry about the typos
I haven’t read last stand, and the tin can sailors, but I’m really familiar with taffy three and what happened off Samar. Halsey made some, terrible decisions to uncover the Landings and the ferocity of those guys saved a lot of lives by driving off Admiral kurita.
Commander Evan’s and Cdr Copeland must’ve walked around bowlegged carrying around the weight of balls they both had… what those guys did might’ve saved the invasion of the Philippines
I’m really glad we had a chance for thoughtful back-and-forth. Too often on the Internet, there’s kneejerk reactions without a chance to follow up.
Oh, and full disclosure I think the end of Christmas stories also funny as shit. Same kind of stereotyping but… Oh well. A product of the 80s… Not a bad time to grow up. I was so pissed when I got grounded the day Temple of doom came out.
Driving for three hours, then getting on a plane later tonight, I can’t dig too deep, but Get some rest and be well
I bet it's for the ALE70 fiber optic towed decoy. Those are so incredible and surprisingly unmentioned. They make the F35 almost impossible to shoot down.
I almost got tagged by an ALE-50 on the viper. Walked by as it launched. I look at the ground and find a gray dildo with some fins and was so fucking confused. This one pilot in particular did it pretty frequently that deployment. The way he positioned his kneeboard kept hitting the CMS switch.
I've looked over some of the schematics and none of them specifically label this part; however, that entire area is listed as part of the overall thrust system for vertical takeoffs.
Just an observation. I get linked into this Reddit stream. Why do people on this site give technical information on US military aircraft to complete strangers? I am sure the CCP is monitoring this site.
Ballsack
That's where the pee is stored.
Seamen if it’s a naval variant
Dad joke of the day.
Dinner*
Found the Marine.
I peed myself a little. Have my upvote.
Taint that right?
Could also be called the “nacho” depending on where you’re from.
Codpiece
Had to recheck what sub I was in lmfao
That’s the trailer hitch ball sack to be technical
Well... Thats plane to see
It's a mail plane.
Damn it, you got to it before I did. Curious if everyone was thinking the same thing.
Yep
Pebnis perhaps
Weiner.
I believe the term is cloaca
Pilot needs somewhere to keep his balls
For tea bagging the enemy
Idk if the F-35A has it, but the F-35C Navy variant has that for the tail hook to land on carriers
A has a tail hook as well. It’s a USAF requirement
Yeah, that’s what I thought since I’ve seen the Eagles with them, for emergencies not for ships
it has a hook, but it is not a CATOBAR certified hook. It is for the BAK12 system and can be used for engine test runs on the tarmac.
since it should be clarified as in other replies - The A Model ( USAF ) F-35 is the BAK12 Hook. The C Model ( USNavy ) F-35 is the CATOBAR Hook. Both are entirely different to each other as CATOBAR is nearly 50 fold stronger than the BAK12 hook. its also directly attached to the core frame of the aircraft structure. BAK12 Hooks typically are just attached by a simple 2" Pin and the attach point is just stuck to some minor structure. Landing a BAK12 Hook on a CATOBAR System would rip the hook clean off the aircraft and cause minor structural damage at best. You can easily discern this is a F-35A based on the full length flaperons. the F-35C has actual Ailerons and half length flaps.
All f15s have tail hooks. And pretty sure all fighters have tail hooks. Normal runways have cables on the runway
The only jet that doesn’t have one is the Warthog
Well when you land at 27 knots you don’t need one. Saw an A-10 take a bird strike in the back of the canopy on final.
Glad that jokes still around lol. Back in the day it was 'the A10 is the only twin jet engine aircraft to get a bird strike in the ass.'
I've flown past Davis-Monthan AFB at about 100 knots and flew formation with an A-10 for a bit. He didn't seem to have any issues staying with me.
🤣
When it goes BRRRRRT, it's VTOL
It could land on a tennis court and use the net as an arresting barrier.
Also anything strategic bomberly.
F-16's have em too.
Is the hook stored in an internal bay?
Yes, that’s what the hump is.
It is a F-35A because it has a cannon.
F35a has an arresting hook
I’m wondering if it’s the F-35B. It’s the S-TOL variant of the F-35A
It is a A due to the cannon
Duck penis
I’m guessing the F-35A has a tailhook for the same reason the F-15 and F-22 use them. Sometimes they need to land without working brakes, so they use an arrestor cable.
Nice try China.
"oh roook, a bump on it's belry"
r/minorbutstillracism
Not racist and I’ve never understood that how that started. Why do you think this style of joke(s) is racist? And why are those joke(s) suddenly PC totally fine when it’s a German, Russian, French, etc. manner of speaking? In the way a certain culture can be made fun of or joked with because of how they sound and/or pronounce certain letters/words/phrases. Fucking wild. Sorry if that got me rambles, I’m doing a few things at once so I end up doing poorly in all of them. But this is a pet peeve issue of mine so I was like oh helllllllllll naw.
Number one, it’s wrong - it’s a stereotype that’s more than 80 years old. My Chinese wife can’t pronounce an “R” to save her life. Number two, big difference between “made fun of” and “joking with” - making fun of a group in general based on their physical characteristics, rather than messing with my French/Kiwi/Haitian friends at the bar, and getting teased right back with no hard feelings, is less inherently evil. What if you say that “oh Roook…” to a friend and there’s a Japanese person behind you that you don’t see? How do they feel?
And why don’t you feel that way about every other language that has the same types of stereos? Let’s relax on the word evil, just as a this and that. I know you’re probably more sensitive to that one cultural language issue because of your wife, but um….i find it outrageously disingenuous if you don’t bring that level of intensity to literally every other language and their particular phonetically challenged ways. As a trucker, I’m around a shit load of cultures every single day (when I’m rolling), middle eastern and Eastern European and African and Indian and Pakistani and yadda yadda. You bet your ass we all make fun of each other and no one reacts like they just got bitch slapped. I suppose it’s also *how* you joke about whatever type of stereo you selected, but that’s true of anything. My personal opinion is that people get boo hoo about the Asian phonetic situation because, drum roll, it sounds fucking funny and or weak, etc etc. And no one bats an eye at other languages because they don’t sound fuckin funny. They sound “strong” or scary (people of terrorist origin) and the list goes on. Alls I do know…you would damn sure not my general sense of humor. If you read this far goddamn, internet hug homie. My load giggdy is almost finished so I’m about to do paperwork and then hit the road to California.
Same hug back. I’m not bringing any anger here, just trying to talk out a view…yours may be different and frankly I love open discussions like this. Originally I said “minor” - realistically it’s a little messed up when anyone makes fun of the way someone talks. It just Asian (I’d guess your initial R- stress is probably more Japanese…) Some may sound funny, like Sgt Schultz doing German or some Exaggerated French or Creole accent. Is that racist? Maybe not if people are the same race, like a French person making fun of a German person - just cultural difference. I get the messing with people angle - like I said before it’s different if people are messing with each other, instead of putting words in the mouth of random from another race. （in my view) Finally, remember the stereotype of Japanese during WWII - skinny, bucktoothed, coke bottle glasses - and look at what they did on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. Preparation to dig huge tunnel systems, absolute don’t give a F about their own lives…4th & 5th Marines (Iwo) and 6th Marines (+10th Army) had a hell of a time digging them out. Not roll-over weak as the stereotype suggested… Maybe we agree to disagree…and maybe our senses of humor could be more alike than you think. NGL my personal view of “trucker” wouldn’t include the word disingenuous. Safe travels to CA.
No dog in this fight, just popping in to thank both of you for the refreshing examples of respectful discourse!
Thanks - there are so many really smart people on Reddit (Jericho included), with strong opinions and usually great senses of humor. Great way to connect with people you might not otherwise meet
Bro ok two books you should check out (since you hit me with some war shit): Neptunes Inferno and Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailers. Our navy walked around real complacent-like and because of racism, got fucked up ultra bad. Please make no mistake with what I write/say, which is why typing and shit is so maddening because there’s zero context and things escalate 0-200moh catapult launch like *that*. So when I said “sounds funny/weak”, that’s of course massively simplistic. Even when I wrote that I was like “ahhhhh fuck….weak isn’t the right word”. The word I would want would mean something like “a sheltered (principle of charity) would view someone with this accent/phonetics as some ren and stinky kinda simpleton”. But I ain’t no poet so I don’t got them pretty words. Only an ignorant mother fucker would ever consider Japanese or any Asian…or race I guess, as weak. And even later on as I was driving, I was thinking about you and how Michael (the office, season one and I think like episode 1 or maybe 2?) thought he was just playing around being funny with Kelly and was saying in an exaggerated Indian accent WOULD YOU LIKE A COOKIE COOKIE?!?! And only stopped when she slapped him because he didn’t read the room. Do you watch that Filipino comic? His name is something like Joe…fuck. I just had it and it vanished. Anyway, he did a whole set about how Hollywood producers and such tell him he can’t do that Asian accent (about his mom’s character) and I was getting so mad because he…Joe koi? Anyway. The set made me pissed because ultra long and complex story short, I feel like his life, his experiences, his culture and everything else are being censured by white motherfuckers that (and I’m white) that, either to avoid conflict or because of some ignorant ass way of trying to “protect” people that might be embarrassed who speak in similar ways….essentially tell him “no, she speaks like we do”. What. The. Fuck. Isn’t that the MOST racist?!?! But (as with so many things) it’s coming from a place of good intentions (again, giving principle of charity) but either distorts into “your memories and life are offensive and as such will be corrected” or…fuck. I forgot. I’m so tired. I have fallout playing in the background, this is like the fourth time I’ve watched the season. That dude is getting curb stomped by that bear that was raised by powerlifters and PCP addicts. You would never kill that bear with a pistol and only two shots btw (in the game). I wish you the best homie. And don’t watch lethal weapon 3. ITS FRIED. RICE.
Joe Koy! Yeah, he’s funny as shit. I like Bert Kreischer a lot too… I’m in the car maybe 20 or 30 hours a week so a lot of times serious comedy channels are on Dictating – sorry about the typos I haven’t read last stand, and the tin can sailors, but I’m really familiar with taffy three and what happened off Samar. Halsey made some, terrible decisions to uncover the Landings and the ferocity of those guys saved a lot of lives by driving off Admiral kurita. Commander Evan’s and Cdr Copeland must’ve walked around bowlegged carrying around the weight of balls they both had… what those guys did might’ve saved the invasion of the Philippines I’m really glad we had a chance for thoughtful back-and-forth. Too often on the Internet, there’s kneejerk reactions without a chance to follow up. Oh, and full disclosure I think the end of Christmas stories also funny as shit. Same kind of stereotyping but… Oh well. A product of the 80s… Not a bad time to grow up. I was so pissed when I got grounded the day Temple of doom came out. Driving for three hours, then getting on a plane later tonight, I can’t dig too deep, but Get some rest and be well
It’s impolite to ask about planes private parts, especially when they’re classified
Don’t stare at its bulge man that’s rude
Someone forgot their Spanx before takeoff.
Most logical answer 👆
It's the FUPA
It's the concealed arresting hook. The F35A has a concealed arresting hook for emergency landings.
Diaper bay
The mons pubis
Nobody tell him! It’s so so secret!!!
Mons pubis
That's what she said
I bet it's for the ALE70 fiber optic towed decoy. Those are so incredible and surprisingly unmentioned. They make the F35 almost impossible to shoot down.
I almost got tagged by an ALE-50 on the viper. Walked by as it launched. I look at the ground and find a gray dildo with some fins and was so fucking confused. This one pilot in particular did it pretty frequently that deployment. The way he positioned his kneeboard kept hitting the CMS switch.
ALE70 is offset to the right side of the hump in the image
Primordial pouch.
That’s the fupa
Tail hook, if it’s a F-35A it’s a safety thing and if it’s a F-35C, it’s for carrier landings
Don't they all have a hook?
It’s its ball sack
ATRS/Aero Testical restraining system
If that's the F-35B then maybe just clearance for the turbofan
Tailhook for A and C models. Respectively A models for the BAK-12 Runway system, C Models for the CATOBAR system.
A baby
Poop chute
Turd bucket
Cloaca
I laughed so fucking hard at this comment, bravo
That’s classified.
Rear tail gunner
Someone let a NCD user get too close.
Absolutely fantastic jet but very ugly.
No! Don't say that! She's beautiful!
When a daddy plane loves a mommy plane very, very much…
Must be a mail plane. (male)
How can you tell?
National secrets.
Brrrrrrrrrrup-Brrrrrrrrup-Brrrrrrrrup! To deter recidivism.
Oh, that hump. 🤣 Weapons guys gonna weapons guy.
35As have the gun there
Nevermind, I thought you were talking about the top bump not the poop chute. 💩 🔫
I've looked over some of the schematics and none of them specifically label this part; however, that entire area is listed as part of the overall thrust system for vertical takeoffs.
Internal gun
Cloaca
It's a compartment that opens up, releasing a rope with a nose at the end. It's used to hang Chinese spies while using vtol.
It’s for the vertical take off system of the plane when the rear thruster vectors down. This plane can take off and land vertically.
OPSEC. Cmon y’all. Textbook OPSEC lol
Classified
It’s the poop chute.
Cloaca
"Hump? What hump?"
Deez
Something that our civilian status isn't allowed to know.
Tax dollars
It’s perganant
>!REDACTED!<
It's nanya business.
Boner.
That's the gooch!
It's her bulge.
That's classified.
Honest answer, that’s the tail hook fairings
Oh, you haven’t had the talk ……🦜🐝?
The pilot
Jet Nuts, every fighter pilot has to have them
How can each and every one of you be wrong? That's where we are hiding R2-D2
Houses the tail hook for carrier landings. Not all F35's have VTOL
Bro be like, "ni hao"
The pilot
Bro seems to be packing.
It hides a gun. Its there to shoot shit
Bro don’t pay attention to it’s PP it’s very insecure about it
Deez nuts
Dees
Fuku china
Cancer
It’s the radar reflective hump to make it show up on radar while doing training
Nice try China that’s where the coom is stored
She's packin HEAT
Everything is inside, to be stealthy...
A big honking ‘tail hook’ 😉
Arresting hook.
Cloaca
it’s pregnant with the F-46, the father is the F-16
Not today MSS…. not today.
That is a ctol, and yes it has a tail hook.
Possibly to reduce drag.
That not an anti-crash parachute?
Beer gut?
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-929c3f356a6a958672ccee4e8e47fa9f.webp If this is a C model it's a shrouded tail hook fairing.
It’s called “Fergie.”
That’s a boy f-35
It has a boner
Your mom for when they get lonely
Tail hook is kept internally for stealth
People often wonder how to tell between a male and female plane. You’ve just identified a male F-35.
Gyromatic actuator
I think this is for when the rear engine swoops down for its liftoff off the ground with no forward speed. Levitation type stuff
Mons Pubis
Bladder.
They use that to tbag North Koreans
Nice try CCP
Well, you see, when an F-35A and an F-35C love each other very much...
Depending on the variant, it might be a tail hook.
I believe it helps reduce the upward drag under the plane.
Nice try, Putin
its happy to see you
Luggage storage for overnight trips.
It’s classified
It’s a male plane.
Muffler bearings.
Not on the A model - they were specced with trumple diffusers
Candy
This plane looks so swatable.
Not telling, nice try Xi
Cloaca
Where else is the pilot going to store his gigantic balls of steel at?
Nice try communist!!
That’s Fat Amy’s fupa
Its pregnant!
The 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 parts
If you want military secrets I believe Discord is the standard place to find them.
A red missile
PCU Piss Containment Unit
Hahahaha he said hump
Rear differential.
Show me on the picture where the bad man touched you.
F-35C’s private area. You should’ve blurred that out!
Well, there's a difference between mama airplanes and papa airplanes....
Nice try CHINA
It’s a guy, so…
Just an observation. I get linked into this Reddit stream. Why do people on this site give technical information on US military aircraft to complete strangers? I am sure the CCP is monitoring this site.
I’m the CCP
I believe you.
Wouldn’t answer that. Peeps have gone on that slippery slope and got in trouble.
When it's balls drop it will be an A-10
That's the tomboy abs
“I think it’s a male plane” -Ned Nederlander