According to the US "Capitol Hill" and other US media reports, on August 8 local time, the US Navy's Europe-Africa Command issued a press release saying that the Navy salvaged an F/A-18 "Super Hornet" fighter in the Mediterranean Sea about 2.89 kilometers deep on August 3.
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The warplanes were salvaged out of the sea and sent to military installations near the site of the crash, from which they were then transported back to the United States. At present, the specific location of the plane crashing into the sea and salvaging it out of the sea has not yet been announced.
The F/A-18 fighter-attack aircraft uses a single-seat/tandem two-seat swept-wing aerodynamic layout and two turbofan engines, and is a multi-role carrier-based fighter, the first model of the U.S. military to combine fighter and attack aircraft, with excellent air, ground and sea attack capabilities. As the most important carrier-based aircraft of the U.S. Navy, it is used for a wide range of purposes, both for maritime air defense and ground attack.
There have been a number of crashes in the United States this year.
On March 19, 2022, an MV-22 Osprey rotorcraft crashed in the United States
On March 23, 2022, a U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed.
On March 30, 2022, a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed in waters near Virginia.
On the night of March 30, 2022, an E-2D Hawkeye AWACS aircraft of the U.S. Navy crashed off the coast of Virginia
The US military will have many crashes every year, but also there will be pilots killed, the US military crash and high-intensity training have a lot to do with, the United States in order to maintain its hegemonic position, thus maintaining a huge military force, the frequent occurrence of crashes is the price to be paid by the United States.