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TrevorPeace
The Van Gogh's a beautiful ship. Wish I could take a sail on this mission.
Ganbare Japan!
If anyone can find a jet 3km below the ocean, USA can. It is vital the US and Japan recover the F-35A, as China and Russia will be doing everything to find it and steal the op-secret technology.
Insane Wayne
Is it at the bottom of the ocean or in China? Japan and China are economic allies.
nandakandamanda
Not clear to which of the two ships the last line refers. Wishing them all luck.
BeerDeliveryGuy
These salvage ships cost 10’s of thousands of dollars per day to charter. Clients don’t hire them until they are fairly certain of the wreck location. The search can be conducted with cheaper mini-submersibles.
The wreck has probably already been located, and the salvage ships are being called in to examine and develop a salvage plan, which could be particularly challenging due to ocean currents, seabed terrain, etc....
Wesley
Hmmm...and that country has close links to china
Peeping_Tom
"as China and Russia will be doing everything to find it and steal the op-secret technology."
China "farts" around Senkakus waters, Japan knows about it.
They don't have the capability to come just off Aomori and undertake "salvage"
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/24/asia/japan-f-35-crash-intl/index.html
"We have a pretty good idea where it is," a senior US Navy official told CNN this week, adding that the search area was looking at depths around 1,500 feet (450 meters), far shallower than the 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) that had been speculated, and a depth that would make recovery operations much easier."
nandakandamanda
Reading the news this morning, it seems there are actually not two but three specialized ships converging on the site, the Van Gogh, the Kaimei and the Muroto.
nandakandamanda
PS Source, in Japanese for those that dare to venture.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190425-00000192-jij-int