Posted on May 6, 2022
The Navy Extracted a Jet Fighter from 12,400 Feet below the Surface of the South China Sea
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Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Defense suddenly faced the catastrophic prospect of forfeiting crucial defense technology to a rival when a military aircraft—packed with highly classified systems—vanished in the South China Sea. The disappearance of the single-engine stealth jet, an F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, triggered a major search-and-recovery effort by a little-known Navy organization that specializes in ocean retrieval. The mission was a high-stakes race to save a Pentagon crown jewel from the extreme depths, with their frigid temperatures and crushing pressure. And it shows why the Navy now wants its crack salvage team to be able to dive even deeper.
The Navy Extracted a Jet Fighter from 12,400 Feet below the Surface of the South China Sea
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..."Despite the sunken U.S. plane’s exact whereabouts being unknown, its legal status was unambiguous. “Under general international law, the aircraft is considered sovereign property of the United States,” says Steven Honigman, who was formerly Navy general counsel during the Clinton administration. The problem is that the letter of the law is no guarantee against skullduggery on the high seas, notes David Concannon, a maritime attorney and deep-sea explorer. In the real world, the F-35 would not be safe if “China wanted to pick it off the bottom before the United States could get to it,” Concannon says. “In international waters, it is kind of a no-man’s-land—and there’s no restriction against recovering it.”...
..."Despite the sunken U.S. plane’s exact whereabouts being unknown, its legal status was unambiguous. “Under general international law, the aircraft is considered sovereign property of the United States,” says Steven Honigman, who was formerly Navy general counsel during the Clinton administration. The problem is that the letter of the law is no guarantee against skullduggery on the high seas, notes David Concannon, a maritime attorney and deep-sea explorer. In the real world, the F-35 would not be safe if “China wanted to pick it off the bottom before the United States could get to it,” Concannon says. “In international waters, it is kind of a no-man’s-land—and there’s no restriction against recovering it.”...
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