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sheogorath said:

Also, I remeber news of them having to redesign the hook in early aircrafts because it failed at catching the cables

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This took 2 years(2013-2015) to fix.

"In other words, the 7.1ft distance between the tires and the tail hook is very short and the responsive dynamics are such that the cable lays almost flat on the deck at the moment the hook point should intercept it to be arrested."

Intrepid said:

A hook not catching the wire causes no injuries. So I think the incident is typical for a broken cable.

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I incline to that same thought.

The situation looks a bit like this: -1.31072

Anlsvrthng said:

Sorry, my bad, the pictures next to the crash on few site shown F-35B as crashed airplane : D

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I think it's about the F-35 that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, I've also seen those same photos.

Overbom said:

If the F-35 fell into the sea and if a PLAN asset(s) was tagging along the carrier, what happens then?

Would the PLAN let the USN to salvage the aircraft uninterrupted?

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The USN as well as the PLAN are racing to get the appropriate type of equipment to recover, due to the location, the PLAN would necessarily have an advantage, but that will depend a lot. It becomes a benevolent point that China has a direct imagination of where the F-35C entered the waters of the South China Sea, making its advanced stealth technology an attractive target for China to launch its own rescue operation. While both have the proper equipment like deep-diving submersibles that pull the wreckage from the ocean floor, both will want to get hold of the F-35C wreckage and that could lead to the inevitable rush.

Just as a curiosity, I read that Carl Vinson is already in Singapore, although I haven't had time to confirm this news yet.

Suetham said:

making its advanced stealth technology

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The real catch there isn't advanced stealth technology(unless you want to sneakily fish out the whole airframe intact, for which China, as far as I know, doesn't have the equipment), but all sorts of arrays(especially radar)&friend or foe systems.

The latter may mean a disaster for the whole program(and also for much of modern US-supplied a/c in general).

The gift that keeps on giving Boeing headaches, another $400 million last year in charges to the company.


As well, some interesting anti monopoly action happening in the States.

They should just let Lockheed Martin buy Aerojet Rocketdyne. Their other competitors like SpaceX and Blue Origin are vertically integrated and have their own engine operations. What they should do though would be to spin off their solid rocket operations to prevent a monopoly. But it is probably too late now that Northrop bought Thiokol.

This is a really neat idea!