From gCaptain, March 4:
The United States Navy has recovered a state-of-the-art F-35C Lightning that fell into the South China Sea after a landing mishap in January. The aircraft was pulled from a water depth of 12,400-feet by the commercial salvage vessel DSCV Picasso.
The F-35C Lightning II, which Lockheed “the most lethal, survivable and connected fighter jet in the world” crashed while conducting routine flight operations from the carrier USS Carl Vinson in January.
The recovery of the F-35C follows a similar operation in which the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States mounted a salvage operation last year for a U.K. F-35B that crashed into the Mediterranean following take-off from the Royal Navy carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The wreckage was recovered from a depth of approximately 12,400-feet by a team civilian contractors and the US Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving aboard Ultra Deep Diving Solution’s diving support construction vessel (DSCV) Picasso....
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This recovery was a heck of a lot faster than the 1974 attempt to find and lift a sunken Soviet submarine. I mention that story in passing in the outro from a post on seabed mining:
It was the Glomar Explorer, not the Hughes Glomar. I had a mentor who was doing the accounting for the spooks. Years afterward when I learned of his role for Hughes/CIA I asked if he had any of the books.
He said "which set?"
