Keen observers noticed something amiss about Biden and Harris' Pentagon social media posts on Monday commemorating Veterans Day.
Post that is now deleted
Instagram and ×, F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Secretariat Although its very existence is centered around the F-35 fighter jet, the aircraft is accompanied by a caption that reads, “Today and every day, we thank all veterans and those currently serving for their service and sacrifice.” Shared the image.
The problem with the F-35 JPO post was not the wording, but rather the image. Not only is the plane in the photo not American, but it belongs to the hostile communist country where some of the living veterans memorialized Monday fought in South Korea.
military.com
noticed Instead of the F-35's single Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine, the vehicle pictured in the post had twin engines. If you look closely, it looks like the F-35 JPO actually posted an image of a communist. Chinese J-35 stealth fighteran imitation of the People's Liberation Army Air Force's F-35.
“You can't make something like this up.”
The backlash was immediate.
Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Missouri)
I wrote“What?”
“Biden Administration: Chinese military equipment on display on Veterans Day”
I wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
one of the commentators on instagram
noticed“'Mom, I want JPO's F-35!'” “No, I have an F-35 at home!” *My F-36*
Another user wrote: “Embarrassing.” “Please remove this. We do not want the F-35 JPO office to support Chinese-made J-35s.”
conservative film director Robbie Starbuck
tweeted“You can't make something like this up. That's amazing.”
John Lefebvre, former Salomon Brothers and Citigroup investment banker
I wrote“China stole the intellectual property for the F-35 and then mocked us by naming theirs the J-35. Today, the Biden administration celebrated Veterans Day by posting a photo of a Chinese-made knockoff. Celebrated.”
F-35 JPO,
promote yourself It deleted the post as “Department of Defense focus on defining next-generation attack aircraft weapons systems” and shared images and videos of a real F-35 jet.
Blaze News has reached out to the F-35 JPO for comment.
Embarrassingly, the F-35 JPO fiasco was not the first time the Biden-Harris Department of Defense has proven difficult to tell friend from friend.
stars and stripes
reported The U.S. Pacific Fleet tweeted and then deleted a message from July 4 last year that depicted military personnel saluting the silhouettes of a Russian Kashin-class destroyer and a Russian Sukhoi-27 fighter jet.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service similarly mistook an enemy ship for its own.
celebrate The 246th birthday of the U.S. Navy in 2021 is expressed with the image of the Russian Kirov-class cruiser.
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