Last month, the US military carrier aircraft that fell into the Mediterranean was finally removed.

According to the US "Business Insider" website reported on the 9th, the U.S. Navy said on Monday that after 27 days, a US Navy F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighter that fell from the aircraft carrier in early July had been salvaged Go to sea.

It was salvaged to get the F/A-18E fighter. Picture source: Foreign media

The U.S. Navy issued a statement saying that the F/A-18E was successfully salvaged on August 3. The salvage team used the CURV-21 deep-water remote control unmanned navigator to fix the dedicated incorrect and enhanced line on the bottom of the sea. On the fighter's body, a hook was installed on the incorporate, and finally successfully raised the aircraft from the depth of about 9500 feet (about 2895 meters) to the water surface, and placed on the multi -purpose ship "Mother Peak". superior.

The statement also said that the fighter was first shipped to a nearby military facility and then was transported back to the United States.

"Super Hornet" fighter. Picture source: Foreign media

Last month, the U.S. Navy issued a statement saying that due to severe weather in the Mediterranean, a F/A-18 "Super Hornet" fighter jet was blown into the deck of the "Harry Truman" on July 8 Sea. At the time of the incident, the aircraft carrier was undergoing maritime supply operations.

Because it is not clear how the bad weather has caused the heavy aircraft to fall into the sea, the incident triggered a survey.

Although the U.S. Navy has begun to equip some carrier-based aircraft fifth-generation fighter F-35C, F/A-18E/F is still its main carrier-based fighter model.

The F-35C fighter fell into the South China Sea. Picture source: Foreign media

This F/A-18 crash incident was also in less than a year. The third time that the Western navy fell on the sea for the third time, and had to send additional equipment to salvage them. In November last year, a F-35B carrier-based fighter fighter on the British "Queen Elizabeth" fell into the Mediterranean. In January of this year, a F-35C fighter hit the flying deck on the aircraft carrier of "Karl Vinson", then slipped from the deck and fell into the South China Sea.

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