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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
[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 2022-01-29 |
