A team made up of divers from the 7th Fleet's Task Force and a Navy salvage and diving team recovered the wreckage from the bottom of the South China Sea, about 12,400 feet below the surface, the Navy said in a press release Thursday.
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| US Navy recovers F-35 from South China Sea |
| 2022-03-04 |
| [MSN] The U.S. Navy has retrieved the F-35C Lightning II plane that crashed in January in the South China Sea. A team made up of divers from the 7th Fleet's Task Force and a Navy salvage and diving team recovered the wreckage from the bottom of the South China Sea, about 12,400 feet below the surface, the Navy said in a press release Thursday. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #9 We've come a long way since the Glomar Explorer. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2022-03-04 20:32 |
| #8 Good job! The technological progress over the last few decades... |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-03-04 16:07 |
| #7 Thanks for the good news. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-04 14:05 |
| #6 F-35 recovery |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-04 13:34 |
| #5 The British one that went down in the Med? They got that one back too. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-04 13:32 |
| #4 Anyone know what happened to the one lost on the QE due to canvas ingestion? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-03-04 13:23 |
| #3 Better yet, they have a test case to use going forward. Hopefully they don't need to dust it off very often. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-04 08:01 |
| #2 Don't know about recovered, but they do have drones that can go that far down to take pictures and collect samples. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-03-04 07:55 |
| #1 Nice - fantastic work, guys! Ima wondering - think the ChiComs could've grabbed it that far down? |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-03-04 00:24 |