But did they scrap it ? Cf. HMAS Melbourne:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/meet-australian-aircraft-carrier-jump-started-chinas-own-carrier-quest-38387
Hmmmm....does anyone find a particular part of the article to be, at least in some small way, ironic?
...Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) investigators have found small sections of the F-35's wing floating in the sea which suggests the advanced aircraft hit the water, but not why it disappeared from radar screens without warning...
Hmm. The parent company that built the plane could profit from its own subsidiary recovering the same aircraft. Hopefully not an incentive to build aircraft that mysteriously fall into the sea.
Since the aircraft was part of a 4 ship formation a fellow pilot/wingman should have noticed something. The pilot was a Major but didn't have a lot of hours in the F35.Just plain bad luck.
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