All countries have always been interested in foreign military technologies – this is a “race for secrets.” Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia about this on Thursday, November 18.
On the eve of a representative of the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense said that the country is seeking to promptly remove the wreckage of the F-35 Lightning fighter, so that “the plane does not fall into the hands of a hostile state.”
The equipment of certain countries regularly fell into the hands of a potential enemy, the expert pointed out.
“The relevant special services are always engaged in the extraction of samples of foreign military equipment. Including raised and sunken foreign weapons. There are known cases when representatives of the FRG took away our torpedoes during firing practice, ”he said.
According to Boltenkov, of particular interest in the wreckage of the British fighter could be a unit of recognition of the “friend or foe” system, as well as weapons control equipment.
The military expert clarified that Russia has the means of lifting objects from the seabed. So, he recalled that the Russian Federation raised blocks from Russian carrier-based fighters that fell in the Mediterranean Sea.
The £ 100m stealth plane crashed into the sea after taking off on 17 November. The plane crashed during a routine flight from the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth.
According to British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, the accident occurred shortly after the F-35 took off, but despite the incident, training flights with the participation of fighters continue.
This is the first accident involving an RAF F-35B, although there have been several previous accidents involving fighters in the past three years. For example, in September 2018, an F-35B pilot, a United States Marine, had to be ejected in South Carolina due to faulty fighter engine pipes.
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