Search and rescue teams found wreckage of a crashed Japanese F-35 fighter that had disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, a military spokesman said
TOKYO - Search and rescue teams found wreckage belonging to a Japanese Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter that disappeared on Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.“We recovered the wreckage and determined it was from the F-35,” the spokesman told Reuters.
Lockheed Martin said in a statement that it was standing by to support the Japanese Air Self Defense Force as needed.The crash was only the second time an F-35 has gone down since the plane began flying almost two decades ago. It was also the first crash of an A version of the fifth-generation fighter designed to penetrate enemy defenses by evading radar detection.
Japan’s new F-35s will include 18 short take off and vertical landing B variants that planners want to deploy on its islands along the edge of the East China Sea.
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