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Navy races to salvage stealth F-35 that crashed on aircraft carrier while landing in South China Sea
KTRK ^ | Luis Martinez

Posted on 01/26/2022 8:39:56 AM PST by BenLurkin

The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most advanced stealth fighter jet in the world and would have made an enticing target for China if it had attempted to recover it from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

The crash of one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world into international waters had fueled speculation that the U.S. Navy might quickly launch a salvage operation to prevent other foreign powers, especially China, from trying to do the same.

Ganyard believes China probably has a general idea of where the jet entered the waters of the South China Sea, making its advanced stealth technology an enticing target for China to launch its own salvage operation.

While Monday's crash marked the Navy's first F-35C crash at sea, it will not be its first operation to salvage an F-35 aircraft.

Late last year, the U.S. Navy helped the British Royal Navy recover an F-35B fighter from the waters of the Mediterranean after it had crashed on takeoff from the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc13.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aircraft; china; f35; f35aircraft; f35cfighterjet; fighterjet; navair; usnavy
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To: T.B. Yoits

LOLOLOL!.................


41 posted on 01/26/2022 9:42:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Starboard

I checked the link and am Amazed at the exacting placement of the main landing gear “shackling”. That looks like an impossible hook up. unless it was done after the plane was brought to surface by other means. The chains were run inside the landing strut.
Is the yellow attachment on rear lift point part of the plane or a device the salvage crew placed?
Just curious!
Thanks


42 posted on 01/26/2022 9:44:11 AM PST by GOYAKLA
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Scrapped years ago.


43 posted on 01/26/2022 9:47:02 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dynachrome

They recovered one over 19,000 ft down so this would be no problemo


44 posted on 01/26/2022 9:47:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin
Navy Exploring Options For Recovering F-35C That Fell Into The South China Sea
The lost F-35C would be an intelligence prize for any foreign power, such as Russia or China, making it a priority for the Navy to retrieve it first.
By Joseph Trevithick January 25, 2022
45 posted on 01/26/2022 9:51:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember something similar happening years ago with a Russian sub watching. The US then mounted a recovery operation to recover the aircraft.

Then there was that lost Russian sub Nixon tried to get raised with Howard Hughes help. It was the reason the Glomar Explorer was built.
Last I heard Russian warships now patrol that area to keep the US away.


46 posted on 01/26/2022 9:54:29 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, Another 30 days. On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

BEAT me to it!


47 posted on 01/26/2022 9:54:52 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, Another 30 days. On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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To: BenLurkin

Four decades ago, FF-1061 PATTERSON was steaming into the Red Sea with a carrier battle group when we were told to hang back to watch over the waters where an F-14 went down. The carrier moved on while we stood plane guard for, I believe it was, 5 or 6 weeks.


48 posted on 01/26/2022 9:59:50 AM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Red Badger
"We should let them have it so they can copy it......................>"/i< Then we can buy 'em back for 10 cents on the dollar. Win-Win!
50 posted on 01/26/2022 10:32:41 AM PST by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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To: jimfree

I remember in 1963, we were on station when JFK was shot, while in the Bay Of Florida salvaging a U2 plane that Castro had shot down, every piece of the plane that was salvaged was immediately covered with a heavy tarp. The barge hauling the salvaged parts was taken into port after dark.


51 posted on 01/26/2022 11:32:39 AM PST by blam
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To: BenLurkin
This accident proves the need for pregnancy flight suits. /s

52 posted on 01/26/2022 11:35:16 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Red Badger
#2: "We should let them have it so they can copy it"

The Chinamen had a the complete plans in their hands months before the first F-35 rolled out of a hangar.

53 posted on 01/26/2022 11:38:24 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
We should let them have it so they can copy it...................... Chinese are pretty frugal with money. Don’t they already have the plans?

Why bother, they'll own all of them in a few years when they take us over.

54 posted on 01/26/2022 11:39:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Arghhh!!


55 posted on 01/26/2022 11:39:41 AM PST by mylife (France? what can you say? How do you rule a land with 246 kinds of cheese?)
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To: BenLurkin

Lethal force we have there !


56 posted on 01/26/2022 12:01:51 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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New Snowden Documents Reveal Chinese Behind F-35 Hack

January 27, 2015

Last week, Der Spiegel published a new tranche of documents provided to the German weekly magazine by the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden. The documents are the first public confirmation that Chinese hackers have been able to extrapolate top secret data on the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet. According to sources, the data breach already took place in 2007 at the prime subcontractor Lockheed Martin. A U.S. government official recently claimed that as of now, “classified F-35 information is protected and remains secure.”

The Snowden files outline the scope of Chinese F-35 espionage efforts, which focused on acquiring the radar design (the number and types of modules), detailed engine schematics (methods for cooling gases, leading and trailing edge treatments, and aft deck heating contour maps) among other things. The document claims that many terabytes of data specific to the F-35 joint strike fighter program were stolen.

https://thediplomat.com/2015/01/new-snowden-documents-reveal-chinese-behind-f-35-hack/


57 posted on 01/26/2022 12:19:10 PM PST by deks
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

I believe anything “making tracks” along the ocean floor would have some serious zero visibility.


58 posted on 01/26/2022 12:31:10 PM PST by GingisK
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To: V_TWIN

They also find underwater mountains using impact studies.


59 posted on 01/26/2022 12:32:25 PM PST by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

Sighted Self
Sank Same


60 posted on 01/26/2022 10:28:13 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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