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Video reveals moment $100m US F-35 stealth fighter CRASHED into aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and photo shows jet in South China Sea after pilot ejected: US in race with China to recover it from seabed
2022-01-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A new video and photo of the US Navy F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed into the South China Sea on Monday have surfaced
    Maybe we should let China have it, as a strategic ploy.
  • The video, which circulated on social media and confirmed to be real, showed the moment just before the $100 million jet crashed into the aircraft carrier

  • The pic, also confirmed to be real by a Navy spokesperson, shows the jet damaged and floating in the sea before it sank

  • It was the second time in three months an F-35 has been lost at sea, with the crash injuring the pilot and seven sailors aboard the USS Carl Vinson

  • The US faces a race to beat China in recovering the high-tech warplane as Beijing could claim salvage rights to remove an 'environmental hazard'

  • The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it had no interest in the jet and that the US should stop 'flexing force at every turn' in the South China Sea
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Once the military's prime mission became procurement, everything else became even less than an afterthought.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-29 11:46  

#3  Just remember, Wave Of The Future!
Gonna be able to replace A10's and everything!
All AF officers who oppose the F35 are traitors!
(A general actually said that.)

This is remarkably like the F111.
Can be used for everything!
Actually means can't do any paticular thing well.
One size fits all!
Really means does doesn't actually fit anyone.
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-01-29 11:37  

#2  Thank you for the clarification.

Can't tell if there is a crazy crosswind, or we have an Island Boys moment.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-29 11:27  

#1  Video shows aircraft hitting edge of deck (a ramp strike), not a broken arresting wire as speculated.
Posted by: Heriberto Gravilet6068   2022-01-29 02:09  

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