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.
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LOLOLOL!.................
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
Scrapped years ago.
They recovered one over 19,000 ft down so this would be no problemo
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.
BEAT me to it!
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.
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.
The Chinamen had a the complete plans in their hands months before the first F-35 rolled out of a hangar.
Why bother, they'll own all of them in a few years when they take us over.
Arghhh!!
Lethal force we have there !
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/
I believe anything “making tracks” along the ocean floor would have some serious zero visibility.
They also find underwater mountains using impact studies.
Sighted Self
Sank Same
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