Posted on 04/09/2019 8:13:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“There is no price too high in this world for China and Russia to pay to get Japan's missing F-35, if they can. Big deal,” tweeted Tom Moore, a former senior professional staff member at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Both Russia and China maintain a significant naval presence in the region, sparking concerns that they could find the missing F-35, Business Insider reports.
“If one of Japan’s F-35s is sitting at the bottom of the Pacific, we are probably about to see one of the biggest underwater espionage and counter-espionage ops since the Cold War. If it was operating without its radar reflectors pinpointing where it went in may be an issue,” tweeted Tyler Rogoway, editor of The War Zone.
While the expert thinks that it would be difficult to reverse engineer the aircraft from pieces of wreckage recovered from the seabed, he warns that the debris could still offer vital information. “There are still lots of interesting parts that could be studied to get some interesting details: a particular onboard sensor or something that can't be seen from the outside but could be gathered by putting your hands on chunks of the aircraft intakes or exhaust section, on the radar reflectors etc,” he said
The stealth fighter, which has been beset by cost overruns and delays, has a price tag of around $100 million each.
Japan plans to buy 147 U.S.-made F-35s, most of them F-35As, over the next decade.
The U.S. military temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35s last year after one of the jets crashed during a training mission in South Carolina.
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Find it an recovery what you can. If not possible blow it to hell and gone into little pieces. We can do this.
MH370 ?
we now use specialized nuclear subs for this sort of mission.
They’ve probably already reverse engineered one.
Yes, “Blind Man’s Bluff” was a completely true, historically accurate and great book, extremely easy reading.
I agree with you.
My guess would be they’ve hacked pretty much all the design info they needed.
The real challenge for them would be manufacturing processes.
One of my SILs works at a large F-35 supplier.
They have a difficult time making a lot of the stuff.
Under water acoustic beacon.
Pings for 30 days when submerged .
Known frequency.....
According to the Owners Manual, Service Records & Logbooks anyway.
We need to build Planes, Cars and Trucks out of Black Box material.
If this Training Mission was a 4 Bird Flight then why was 1 separated from the other 3 ?
What happened to never leave Your Wingman ?
Those beacons are made of black box material. Every military plane I have worked on had them.
OK
Seems to be minimal info on this situation. I still want to know where was the Wingman ? What happened to the DATA LINK from Aircraft to Aircraft.
This was a 4 Ship Flight and 1 goes SPLASH !?
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