中国は墜落した米国のF-35ジェットの救助権を主張するかもしれない, 専門家は警告します

A retired military official is warning on Wednesday that 中国 could claim salvage rights to an F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed into the South China Sea earlier this week.

Carl Schuster, former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center in ハワイ, 言った CNN that China’s likely game plan will be to capitalize on its territorial claims in the South China Sea and claim it’s salvaging the craft for environmental purposes.

‘Salvaging the plane with commercial and coast guard assets will enable 北京 to claim it is recovering a potential environmental hazard or foreign military equipment from its territorial waters,’ the former Navy captain said.

アメリカ. faces a race to beat Beijing in recovering the military plane after it plunged into the South China Sea on Monday following what the Navy termed a ‘landing mishap’ aboard the USS Carl Vinson.

The pilot was forced to eject and seven military personnel in total were injured.

But as the U.S. military works to recover the craft, Schuster warned that China ‘will try to locate and survey it thoroughly using submarines and one of its deep diving submersible’ to find it first.

The timeline for search and recovery could stretch across months, the retired military commander said.

Salvage ships could take between 10 に 15 days to arrive at their destination, 彼が説明した, after which point recovery could take as long as 120 日々.

The Navy has not revealed where the crash occurred, and a vast majority of the waters have been claimed by Beijing.

The Chinese government has yet to make an official comment on the matter. DailyMail.com has reached out to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in the United States.

At least one geopolitics expert believes China will be more cautious, despite the potential boon of classified technology the wreckage could present.

‘To overtly go about doing this may risk worsening tensions with the US. I don’t believe Beijing has stomach for that,’ Collin Koh, research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, CNNに語った.

彼が追加した: 'しかしながら, we can expect the Chinese to shadow, hang around and keep tabs on any such American salvage and recovery operation.’

The $100m warplane, customized for naval operations, plunged overboard – making it the second time in three months that an F-35 has been lost at sea.

副大統領からの哀悼のソーシャルメディアメッセージで. Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft involved in the mishap aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the South China Sea, 1月. 24,’ a spokesperson for the US 7th Fleet told DailyMail.com on Tuesday.

‘We cannot speculate on what the PRC’s intentions are on this matter.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to the 7th Fleet for an update to the search on Wednesday.

It leaves the Navy with a complex salvage operation if it is avoid its most sophisticated warplane, crammed with futuristic technology, falling into the hands of the People’s Republic of China.

The F-35C is the only long-range stealth strike fighter designed to operate from aircraft carriers.

It carries an arrestor hook – to help it land on aircraft carriers – and the expanded wingspan needed to be launched by catapult.

As well as its radar-avoiding design, it is crammed with sensors that beam updates directly to the pilot’s helmet.

The Navy has yet to offer an explanation of what went wrong.

‘An F-35C Lightning II assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, embarked aboard USS (CVN 70) had a landing mishap and impacted the flight deck and subsequently fell to the water during routine flight operations,’ it said in a statement to US Naval Institute News.

‘Impact to the flight deck was superficial and all equipment for flight operations is operational.’

It added that the aircraft carrier had been able to resume normal flight operations shortly after.

昨年, Britain appealed to the US for help in finding an F-35B Lightning II that toppled from HMS Queen Elizabeth into the Mediterranean during a failed takeoff.

London asked for help amid fears that Russia would try to salvage the jet and copy the technology.

It was retrieved last month during a secret operation.

The US Navy jet was part of a deployment designed to bolster American presence near Taiwan after China had buzzed the island’s airspace.

A Navy statement said the incident happened during ‘routine flight operations’ in the South China Sea.

‘The pilot safely ejected from the aircraft and was recovered via U.S. military helicopter,’ と言いました.

‘The pilot is in stable condition. There were seven total sailors injured.’

The statement said three of personnel required evacuation to a medical facility in Manila and four were treated by on-board the carrier and released.

It said all the personnel evacuated were assessed as being in stable condition.

The Navy said the cause of the ‘inflight mishap’ on the nuclear-powered carrier was under investigation.

‘The status of the aircraft is currently under investigation as are the factors involved in the mishap,’ Brenda Way, a spokesperson for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, 言った The War Zone.

The F-35 jet is made by Lockheed Martin, and the USS Carl Vinson in August deployed from its San Diego base for the first time with F-35C Lightning II fighter jets and Navy CMV-22B Osprey aboard.

The F-35C is the carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter being built in three versions for the Air Force, Marines and Navy.

The Navy version can fly 1.6 times the speed of sound and has a combat radius of 1200 海里.

‘Vinson is the first carrier to accommodate a mix of 4th- and 5th- generation strike fighters, providing unprecedented lethality and survivability and ensuring the Navy team can operate and win in contested battlespace now and well into the future,’ said Capt. Tommy Locke, commander of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, 8月に.

The Pentagon said two U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Groups, led by the Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln, began operations in the South China Sea on Sunday.

The carriers entered the disputed sea for training as Taiwan reported a new Chinese air force incursion at the top of the waterway.

The Carl Vinson is supported by more than 5,000 crew members and carries 65 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft.

This is only the second major mishap involving an F-35 of any kind operating from an aircraft carrier, following the loss of the British F-35B Joint Strike Fighter in the Mediterranean last year.

今月上旬, a South Korean pilot was forced to make an emergency ‘belly landing’ in an F-35A after suffering a malfunction in the air.

Landing gear on the jet failed to extend but instead of ejecting, the pilot decided to land the US-made craft at an airbase on its belly.

The equipment failed due to electronic issues, a South Korean Air Force spokesman said, forcing the pilot to take the unprecedented action.

A military official refused to confirm if the jet suffered any damage in the incident but the pilot walked away uninjured.

「第5世代’ 戦闘機は世界で最も高価な兵器システムです. Costs finally stabilized at an eye-watering $406billion, but only after the intervention of President Donald Trump.

Manufacturer Lockheed-Martin agreed to cap costs after rump criticized the project and even tweeted support for a rival aircraft.

America enticed its NATO and other allies into sharing the cost of the aircraft by offering input into manufacture and 15 最初の4機のF-35BライトニングII航空機の1機が6月にノーフォークのRAFマーハムに到着します.

But developing and testing were bedevilled by technical issues.

の模擬空中戦で 2015, 最先端の飛行機は古い世代のF-16によって敗北しました, 1970年代に設計された飛行機.

に 2020 ペンタゴンテストが見つかりました 276 ジェットの戦闘システムのさまざまな障害.

They included the 25mm cannon vibrating excessively and problems with the the aircraft’s ‘virtual reality’ ヘルメット

過熱, 垂直尾部のコンポーネントの早期摩耗と火災に対する脆弱性も問題であることが判明しました.

米空軍は、酸素供給の問題を調査している間、一時的に数十機のF-35ステルス戦闘機を接地しました.

海兵隊, which operates the vertical take off and landing F-35B model, コンピュータシステムに欠陥が見つかった後、飛行機を接地することを余儀なくされました.