[Military and Military Sub-plane]: Gun Bolt
Recently, the events that shocked the world are not only the domestic turmoil caused by the US election, but also the fact that an F-16 fighter plane on the other side lost contact for no reason 2 minutes after it took off.
▲Guangming.com reports
Let's first review the ins and outs of the whole incident. On the evening of October 17, 2020, an F16 fighter jet of the Fifth Wing of the Taiwan Air Force, driven by a veteran pilot named Jiang Zhengzhi, took off from Hualien Air Force Base. After 2 minutes, it suddenly disappeared on the radar spot, disappeared. The location is estimated to be about 17 kilometers northeast of Hualien Airport. The fighter plane was flying and suddenly disappeared, and the miraculous event immediately aroused great attention and speculation around the world. Where did it go? Some people say that there is a "pilot uprising", some people say that the plane crashed into the sea, and some Taiwanese celebrities even analyzed that the reason for the crash was that the PLA's frequent patrols made the pilots of the Taiwan Army highly nervous and made mistakes in flight.
▲F-16A Block20 took off.
No matter how guessed, the incident has already happened. The Taiwan side immediately formed a mighty search and rescue team, and also dispatched the "Jinjiang Ship", "Mine Hunter" and "Audreys" for sea testing. The boat pulls the net to find it, after all, it is a human life, after all, it is something bought with money. Finally, after 4 days of searching, I have some eyebrows.
▲The three sea survey ships dispatched by the Audreys
are really promising. They received a clear beacon signal for two consecutive days. This beacon signal can be determined to be sent by the black box of the fighter. This box includes a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and a Flight Data Recorder (FDR), which will continue to send out signals even if they fall into the sea, and the power can last for 30 days. If a black box is found, it can be analyzed whether it is a human or mechanical failure, and all aircraft in the world are currently equipped with this preventive remedy.After beacon signal analysis and cross-comparison, the detailed position of the fighter has been calibrated.
▲Schematic diagram of the black box of the airliner
The location of the black box of the airliner has been demarcated, and we need to salvage it quickly, but this place is very special. The depth of the seabed has exceeded 1,000 meters. In addition, the strong current makes the detection instruments and underwater cameras difficult to operate, and the degree of danger is high. The next operation will wait for the weather and the current to stabilize temporarily before accurate photography and salvage can be carried out.
▲Network report
Can we salvage it when the weather improves? According to past experience, deep-sea salvage is not as easy as imagined!
is no coincidence! In April 2019, an F-35A of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force suddenly disappeared from the radar like the F16 fighter while performing a training mission in the high seas near Hokkaido . After search and rescue, it was determined that it fell into the sea, which was deeper than the F16 in Taiwan. The black box and the body sank to the bottom of the 1,500-meter deep sea, and the salvage work would be very difficult.
▲Japanese media reports
Everyone knows that the deepest limit of the world's largest submarine is about 1,000 meters. It is only used to test the bearing capacity when it sinks to this depth. It can't do anything at all. Very professional salvage technology and ability, it is estimated that only the three major powers of China, the United States and Russia in the world can do it. Japan has long known that such a secret operation will definitely not involve China and Russia, so after the crash, the US military stationed in Japan immediately dispatched a B-52 bomber to patrol the vicinity of the accident area to assist Japan in its search.
▲The Japanese F-35 fighter took off
It took a year. In May 2020, Japan once again announced the salvage progress of the missing F-35 fighter, saying that most of the wreckage of the aircraft had been found, including some recorders and cockpit fragments, but The most critical part of the aircraft, the engine, was not found. I don't know if it was lying on the seabed or was salvaged by other countries. There is a serious hidden danger of leaking secrets.
▲The Japanese Self-Defense Force dispatched planes and warships to search for the wrecked F-35 fighter.
It is difficult to fly a plane, and it is also difficult to drop a plane. It is even more difficult to salvage a plane from the bottom of the sea, not to mention Taiwan, which is not technologically advanced. Finally, a piece of advice: don't do harm to others, and turn around as soon as possible.
