A state -of -the -art Royal Navy Santth Fighter, worth £ 80 meters, is stuck for more than 10 days at an airport in southern India, as it was forced to make an emergency landing.
The F -35B Lightning Jet flew away from the coast of Kerala in southern India on June 14, flying at a distance of a distance of about 100 miles from the coast of Kerala and was unable to return to its aircraft carrier instead, asking to allow on the land inste Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.
The Royal Navy is said to have rejected a proposal to move the war aircraft to a hangar because it does not want Indians, or potentially a third party, to look closely on its “protected technologies”, local broadcasters NDTV quoted anonymous security sources.
Indian Air Force Confirmed that F -35B, which was operating a trim in the Indian Ocean Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, Made an emergency landing in Thiruvananthapuram,
The jet “flying regularly outside the Indian air defense identity sector” said the Air Force said, and Thiruvananthapuram was “as an emergency recovery area”.
“On declaring diversion from emergency, F-35B was detected and identified by IAF’s IAF IAF and approved for recovery. IAF is providing all the necessary assistance for the improvement and later return of the aircraft.”
Independent It is understood that a technical issue was identified with the aircraft after landing in Thiruvananthapuram. The same night it arrived, reached Thiruvananthapuram with technicians to assess an AW101 Merlin helicopter aircraft from the aircraft carrier, but it was finally decided that the fighter could not shut down again without the help of an expert team from the UK.
Indian authorities have tasked the Central Industrial Security Force, a branch of a branch of military, which guard the major infrastructure, to protect the jet to protect the clock round, standing in the open between monsoon rains near the domestic terminal.
A spokesman for the British High Commission in Delhi told Independent, “We are working as soon as possible to repair the UK F -35B at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. We thank Indian authorities for their continuous support.”
F-35b Lightning by the American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is one of the most advanced fighters in the weapons of NATO states and a few selected colleagues. It is packed with state -of -the -art technology, including sensors, mission systems, and stealth features that allow it to be operated in an hostile environment.
India does not have its own F-35s, however Donald Trump announced at a news conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year He was “paving” for India to allow the fighters to purchase secretly. However, before a brief conflict between India and Pakistan, in which the two countries claimed to have shot each other’s jets.
“Lightning is a multi-raw combat aircraft that can simultaneously conduct the roles and missions of different aircraft,” Royal air force Description. “For electricity, it also includes air-to-air and air-to-surface electronic war.”
