The Royal Navy of Great Britain participated in a "race against the Russians" for the recently lost fifth-generation fighter with a short takeoff and vertical landing F-35B Lightning II in the Mediterranean, the Daily Mirror claims .
"The Royal Navy was in a race against the Russians to return a British military aircraft worth 100 million pounds with top secret technology after it crashed in the Mediterranean Sea," the British tabloid publication says.
The publication claims that some of the sunken elements of the F-35B Lightning II were created using secret technologies that may interest the Russian side. We are talking, in particular, about "top-secret radar and sensors that allow the F-35B to fly at supersonic speed unnoticed."
The Daily Mirror writes that "the wreckage of the plane was discovered on Wednesday [November 17] in the afternoon and is under the protection of an Anglo-American group of divers." The publication reminds that the lost F-35B Lightning II is the most advanced British fighter with a short takeoff and vertical landing.
The F-35B Lightning II fighter of the Royal Navy of Great Britain sank on the morning of November 17 in the Mediterranean Sea. The pilot managed to eject and was taken to the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. The incident occurred during a scheduled flight. The circumstances of the incident are being clarified.
Ivan Potapov
