Fox News host claims Russian jet can fly 'twice the speed of light'

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Fox News host Jillian Mele mistakenly reported on Wednesday that Russia has a military fighter jet that can fly at nearly "twice the speed of light."
"That boggles my mind," Mele admitted.

"The jet features stealth characteristics and the ability to cruise at supersonic speeds," Mele said of Russia's new technology.
"The new aircraft is smaller than other Russian fighter jets but
can fly at a speed of almost twice the speed of light."
"The new design can also be converted into an unpiloted version," she added.

"Unpiloted," co-host Steve Doocy weighed in, "so you would control it by a computer or a person running it just like a video game."

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity concluded that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
Russia's new fifth-generation stealth fighter can fly "at a speed of 1.8-2 times the speed of sound."

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-russian-fighter-jet/

[Haggard Celine]

1. Just a reader

I'm blonde and I just read what's on the card!

[11 Bravo]

2. BREAKING: To the sun and back in just over 8 minutes!

Exclusively on Fox.

[Patterson]

14. Wouldn't it burn up if it went to the sun?

[rickford66]

16. They can go at night.

[Patterson]

17. Good job.

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. ...

[brush]

3. And no one told her to correct her statement thru the earphone?

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Guess the FOX producers are just as dumb as the on-air idiots. And 1.8-2 times the speed of sound has been, and is often surpassed by fighter jets. Our own SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, long out of service now, flew at 3 times the speed of sound.

The Soviet Foxbat Mig-25 flew at Mach 2.83 itself, also out of service.

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. They were too busy doing this;

[gratuitous]

4. An appropriate limerick

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light
She set off one day
In a relative way
And returned the previous night

[Midnight Writer]

23. Exactly. Theoretically, once you exceed the speed of light, you will move backward in time.

At least that's what all my old Flash and Superman comics said.

[Beastly Boy]

5. Warp factor 1.1!

Take THAT, Scotty! You ain't got nothin' on Fox News!

[Initech]

20. Ludicrous Speed! Go!

[Chainfire]

6. Now that is a good fighter, you can get there before you left!

[ProfessorGAC]

12. One Could Do A Preemptive Strike...

...after the fact!
Cool!

[Jim__]

7. And Steve Doocy chimes in that you can control it remotely. I guess you send commands using ...

... those new-fangled high-energy waves. Unbelievable!

[Journeyman]

8. Don't really need stealth technology if you're traveling at twice the speed of light . . .

you'll be there and back twice over before anyone will ever see you, and even then it will only be a vision of a memory.

[joetheman]

9. So effing what!!??

Flying the speed of light you still have to slow down to land and where are you going to land these days?

[sarisataka]

10. I seriously doubt

It can even make point 5 past light speed. What is its record on the Kessel run?

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. 12 Parsecs

It was 20 before, and then it wasn’t

[CanonRay]

11. How stupid. It really flies at twice the speed of taste.

[ChrisF1961]

13. Here is a picture of it

[smirkymonkey]

15. Well, that is something.

Those crazy Russians. So competitive.

[Sneederbunk]

18. Sorry, your mind was already boggled.

[yonder]

24. Won't be long before this is used as an example of how

Biden has decimated our military and can't keep up with the technological developments of our adversaries.