The Navy Wants to Talk About Deep Sea Salvage, But Not the F-35 Sitting at the Bottom of the South

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The Navy Wants to Talk About Deep Sea Salvage, But Not the F-35 Sitting at the Bottom of the South
16 Feb 2022
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
Three weeks after an F-35C Lightning II fighter bounced off the deck of a ship and sank into the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy decided to highlight its salvage and deep-sea recovery capabilities in a press event for reporters Wednesday while insisting the two weren't related.

On Jan. 24, an F-35C fighter crashed onto the USS Carl Vinson and slid off the flight deck, into the South China Sea. Images of the plane floating in the water, complete with missing ejection seat and surrounded by debris, were later leaked online. After the crash, the Navy announced that it was "making recovery operations arrangements" for the aircraft but gave no other details.

But at the start of Wednesday's event, Alan Baribeau, a spokesman for Naval Sea Systems, noted that they were "not going to answer anything that's tied to anything of an ongoing, current-day, real-world
nature."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/02/16/navy-wants-talk-about-deep-sea-salvage-not-f-35-sitting-bottom-of-south-china-sea.html

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Of course they are going to salvage the fighter.

Or at least strip it of anything classified while it lays on the bottom of the sea.