After F-35C Stealth Fighter Jet Crash, The U.S. Most Advanced Jets Seem To Be “Rusting” On Board Aircraft Carrier

About a week since the U.S. Navy embarrassingly lost an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in the South China Sea, all the efforts to recover the jet is still ongoing. The most advanced jet, which crashed into the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on January 24 and then fell into the water, has injured the pilot and at least six sailors in the crash. The crash happened as Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln were operating in the South China Sea. It's still unclear if the entire fighter jet, which is loaded with top classified technology, could be recovered because the aircraft was said to have been broken into debris as it crashed into the sea at high speed. Getting access to the actual unit of the U.S. most advanced fighter jet will not only allow China to study and potentially replicate it, but also to find its vulnerabilities. The Japanese lost an F-35A in the Pacific Ocean in April 2019 after the Lockheed Martin-made fighter jet crashed into the sea, travelling at an estimated speed of 690 mph. The crash aboard Vinson last week is the first-ever crash involving the F-35C stealth fighter plane.