The United States, as its superpower, runs amok in the world, while the US military, as the world's number one military, "sails freely" around the world. However, I often walk by the river, where there is no reason to get wet shoes. Recently, the U.S. Navy Pacific Command issued a statement on the 24th, confirming that when the US Navy's USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was training in the South China Sea, the F-35, a fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft carrier, suddenly crashed into the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. The pilot catapulted to escape, but still injured 7 people. You may feel that this scene is very familiar, in November last year, the British F-35 also showed us such an operation, almost "cut off" by Russia after the accident, so that we can think of our neighbor Japan, also ordered 147 F-35s, plus the completion of the aircraft carrier transformation, Japan will not appear in the future?
The United States and Japan have always been "old friends", and as an Asian ally of the United States, Japan is also very responsive to the actions of the United States. On the occasion of the continental East Olympic Games, the US aircraft carriers and large warships came one after another and appeared around China, which is also the time when the Mainland Spring Festival will come, and the United States wants to deter China by force and show off its muscles to complete its overseas power display.
So the United States pulled the younger brother Japan, the two sides cooperated, on January 22, the United States dispatched its own aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, Lincoln aircraft carrier, Essex amphibious strike group, and Using the United States amphibious assault fleet. The two aircraft carriers plus two advanced amphibious assault ships are also very luxurious in configuration, basically carrying multiple F-35C carrier-based aircraft. In addition, the Japanese side did not want to show weakness, sent its own Hyuga helicopter carrier, the two sides in the Philippine Sea high-profile military exercises, F-35 has carried out various training, became the focus of the exercise.
Subsequently, the United States felt that it was not too addicted. After the joint exercise with Japan, the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier went to the South China Sea, but when the F-35C carrier aircraft was conducting daily training, a US Navy F-35C suddenly crashed into the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the pilots were in a critical moment of emergency ejection to escape, which subsequently injured 7 people, including the pilot, and 6 people were injured on the deck of the aircraft carrier. The cause of the accident is not clear, but it was the first time an F-35C fighter jet crashed and the fifth major accident in the using carl Vinson in recent months. The U.S. military's own F-35 has crashed seven times so far, not counting Japan and Britain, plus this time it is the eighth time. It can also be said that the United States is self-inflicted, treating the South China Sea as its own backyard garden, and its hands are too long, and it will eventually pay a price.
On November 17 last year, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth was stationed in the Mediterranean. The F-35 carrier-based aircraft on board the carrier were conducting daily training, but an accident occurred, and the F-35B fighter jet fell into the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea shortly after taking off from the carrier. The crashed aircraft came from THE RAF's 617th Squadron, and the RAF and Air Force had been equipped with a total of 24 F-35s by the time of the accident, with a cumulative flight time of more than 10,000 hours. Despite the controversy in the UK, the UK plans to purchase 138 F-35s.
Both British and American F-35s have crashed, and our neighbor Japan has F-35s. As a powerful U.S. leader in Asia, the United States regards Japan as an important ally, compared with South Korea and India, Japan not only has a high economy and a strong military, but also cooperates with the United States on many issues. Japan's Izumo-class aircraft carrier has been modified, and will continue to upgrade other warships in the future, carrying more F-35s and improving Japan's maritime combat capabilities. Japan's Izumo-class aircraft carrier has already taken off and landed F-35B fighter jets in October last year, equipped with the ability to take off and land fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers, becoming the first country in Asia to realize the landing of five-generation stealth carrier-based aircraft. The modification of the Izumo-class aircraft carrier is to carry F-35 fighter jets.
Japan plans to buy 147 F-35 fighter jets, more than the 138 planned by britain. Japanese military experts said that the Izumo-class aircraft carrier is equipped with 10 F-35 carrier-based aircraft, it can deal with the 24 J-15 carrier-based aircraft on the Liaoning aircraft carrier, and if it carries 24 aircraft, then the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force can gain the upper hand. Japan's remodeled Izumo-class aircraft carrier can carry up to 28 carrier-based aircraft, including 12 F-35B carrier-based aircraft.
Therefore, after Japan carries the F-35, it will not only march to its own waters, but also may also exercise in the East China Sea again with US aircraft carriers and warships, after all, Japan and the mainland are close to the East China Sea. In September last year, Japan and the United States launched an army exercise of 100,000 people, basically directed at the East China Sea. But the F-35 has crashed many times, and the United States and Britain have damaged this advanced fighter.
In April 2019, when the pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force were conducting daily training at night, an F-35A crashed into the sea after the pilot was "lost in space". With the completion of the transformation of the Izumo-class aircraft carrier and the future "Kaga" aircraft carrier, Japan will make frequent moves in the East China Sea, and after the equipment in 2024, in less than two years, it may follow in the footsteps of the United States and Britain carrier-based aircraft.
Although Japan's upgraded Izumo-class aircraft carrier has quasi-aircraft carrier combat strength and can also take off and land F-35 carrier-based aircraft, it does not have fixed-wing aircraft. Because there is no taxi deck, the F-35's bomb carrying capacity is greatly reduced, including refueling, which will affect the F-35's range and combat capabilities. Although Japan wants to come to the east china sea to show off its might, but at this time, China's aircraft carrier is more powerful, new carrier-based aircraft may have been in service, and the Japanese F-35 will not take advantage of it, and will continue to stage the story of the crash. The mainland's fifth-generation fighter J-20 has never had a crash record, which is also the envy of the United States, Britain and Japan.