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2022-03-04 China-Japan-Koreas

US Navy recovers F-35 from South China Sea

[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 2022-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-03-04 00:24|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-03-04 07:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-03-04 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Anyone know what happened to the one lost on the QE due to canvas ingestion?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-04 13:23|| 2022-03-04 13:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-03-04 13:32|| Front Page Top

#6 F-35 recovery

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-04 13:34|| 2022-03-04 13:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks for the good news.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-04 14:05|| 2022-03-04 14:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Good job! The technological progress over the last few decades...

Posted by magpie 2022-03-04 16:07|| 2022-03-04 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 We've come a long way since the Glomar Explorer.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-03-04 20:32|| 2022-03-04 20:32|| Front Page Top

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