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It's the most advanced plane the military has. You would think that an eject would trigger some additional communications or allow remote control of the jet.


"Remote control of jet" comes with fairly obvious adversarial risks the military likely wishes to avoid.


Drones?


We’ve had this trouble with them, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

No one wants to lose a B-2 or F-22 this way.


There is no remote control of manned tactical aircraft. That was never a requirement.

The jet may have been transmitting it's position via civilian ADS-B or military data link. But those systems could have been switched off, or malfunctioned during the mishap.


Pilots don't eject from controllable aircraft. If the pilot ejected, remote control won't help.




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