Since the beginning of the second half of the year, the US Navy has not stopped its high-density exercises in the Asia-Pacific region; since last week, the United States has carried out large-scale anti-submarine exercises in the Philippine Sea east of the Bashi Strait, in conjunction with a number of maritime forces, including the Japan Sea, and the CarlVinson Strike Group and a nuclear submarine of the US Navy; a helicopter aircraft carrier and a conventional submarine of the Japan Kaizko have all participated in this rather large-scale exercise.
But this exercise has not yet produced any results, the U.S. Navy has already been ugly; according to the news released by the U.S. Navy itself, there have been two A-class accidents in a few days, one of which is a single-shot failure of an F-18 fighter; and the other is more bizarre, a helicopter that is performing anti-submarine training, when it is lowering the sonar for diving, a cable break occurred, and then this high-end low-frequency sonar drifted away with the current and sank. The U.S. Navy lost a multimillion-dollar piece of equipment, resulting in a serious Class A accident. Shortly after the loss of the piece, the U.S. Navy decisively announced that it would not attempt to salvage and recover the hanging sonar.
Although the hanging sonar is not a consumable in any country; but the hanging sonar falling off accident is actually quite common, after all, it is a suspension cable and the fuselage pylon between the connection, absolutely not how much to take care of, a little bit of wind and grass are easy to make such a hanging sonar fall off accident, daily maintenance work is not in place to lead to cable aging or joint lock is not strict; pilot and operator illegal operations such as in the suspension of the flight speed is not controlled Even if the wind is too strong or the sea conditions are too complicated during the mission, it is possible to directly tear off the fragile connection cable and cause the sonar to fall off; the U.S. Navy is not surprised by this kind of accident; it is not difficult to deal with after falling off, and it is not difficult to deal with it, and it is necessary to return to the aircraft carrier to find another installation from the spare parts depot.
As for the sound that the U.S. Navy directly gave an A-class accident, it sounds quite serious, making it seem as if the U.S. Navy has lost a lot of money in this exercise; that has nothing to do with how high and sophisticated this sonar is, or how much it loses after it is lost, it is simply a question of the U.S. Navy accident classification standard, the time of that standard is too early, as long as more than 2.5 million US dollars of damage accidents are all counted as A-class accidents, placed in the US Navy to identify as ' The era of the dead bird missile is only hundreds of thousands of dollars a shot, of course, there is no problem, but when the US military-industrial complex capability is not as good as a day, the cost and cost are rapidly rising, and the damage to any small thing is an A-class accident, which looks at the so-called serious A-class accident, simply because of such a small hanging sonar, it is worth more than 3 million US dollars.
Although the U.S. Navy is also short of money now, but it is not to feel any pain for the loss of a small thing of 3.2 million US dollars, after all, the ammunition and fuel waste that is inevitable in the daily take-off and landing training is more than this little money, and a more than 3 million things are lost; what can make the U.S. Navy really rush to care, that is, this type of hanging sonar technology level is still quite advanced, once lost can not be recovered, will there be a leak accident, and the loss and cost have little to do with it.
Especially the exercise area itself is very interesting, the Philippine Sea belongs to a neighboring country submarines will often pass through the place, the U.S. Navy in this area of anti-submarine exercises, but also quite a real combat, the only problem is that the range of activities of our navy is too close, this lost sonar In case it is not a U.S. ally of the country to pick up, it is indeed quite troublesome, this is the U.S. Navy's decision to decide whether to salvage the key; after all, the cost of fishing such a small thing to spend, It's not even $3.5 million.
After all, the RAF F-35B crash has only been half a month, although the wreckage has been found, and the salvage work has been carried out; but the public opinion war between Britain and the United States about the Russians wanting to grab the F-35B wreckage to go back to study is still not finished, everyone still has a surprising consensus on the accident wreckage of the advanced equipment, afraid that Russia will naturally be afraid that China will go to the Philippine Sea to salvage a hanging sonar, which is the reason why the salvage is not salvage.
Compared with the so-called F-35 scramble between britain, the United States and Russia in public opinion because of the F-35 crash in the past two weeks, the US Navy is very decisive this time to give up the salvage; I want to come to the US Navy is also clear, in the Philippine Sea, the average water depth is five or six kilometers deep, to find such a small equipment like a needle in a haystack, it is really a bit inexplicable, and finally find the remains of a three million equipment, it will cost about 30 million US dollars to not necessarily have results. Giving up salvage without even thinking about it is indeed the most appropriate.
This kind of thing sinks to the bottom of the sea, there is really no possibility of salvage; the depth of the water is more than 5,000 meters, it is not a large item, for which country to spend so much effort to catch such a gadget is not worth the loss; it is probably easier to find a spy to steal another one; so the US Navy is naturally not as troublesome as the F-35B; it is a pity to think about it; it is a pity to see the US Navy rushing to find something, and we can't do it like Russia in the Mediterranean. Make small gestures to increase the tension of the Americans.