Fighter jet with a cloaking device costs $68k/hr to operate

[Dominus]

It's a cool concept. But good God is it expensive to operate.

Footage captures fighter aircraft ‘activating its cloaking device’ and people have a lot to say about it

An F-22 Raptor jet appeared to activate it's so-called 'cloaking device' in a viral video that's leaving people awestruck.

www.unilad.com

 

[rareboy]

But what is money anyway?

One assumes that the money is flowing into pockets of operators and others in the support side, so is it any different than what a football stadium costs per hour to operate?

Neither may even be remotely really useful but we don't really care.

 

[Alistair]

Cheap considering a toilet seat cost $800 in 1980

And per the cloaking device, the world just keeps getting dumber and dumberer.

 

[rareboy]

I would also note that with a piece of machinery worth 150 million to replace, concealing it for an hour or so at 68K/hr seems like a good deal.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I'm not in a position to know, as I've never worked with or near fighter jets, but I dont think that has anything to do with cloaking.

It looks simply like the effect high speed jets and missiles create when they cross the sound barrier and it causes a vapor looking wave like that.

My guess is that someone got footage of that and then it got forwarded around by those wanting to create a buzz on seeing this "secret" technology.

It's very unlikely any cloaking looks like a vapor.