The $100m jet is fair game, in international waters. "It's the Hunt for Red October meets The Abyss."
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还是看看老外的报道吧,
The jet is the Navy's newest, and crammed with classified equipment. As it is in international waters, it is technically fair game.
Whoever gets there first, wins.
Still, US national security experts say Chinese military would be "very keen" to get to the jet. A US salvage vessel looks to be at least 10 days away from the crash site.
That's too late, says defence consultant Abi Austen, because the black box battery will die before then, making it harder to locate the aircraft.
Two years earlier, the Chinese military secretly salvaged the UK submarine HMS Poseidon which sank off China's east coast.
And it is widely believed that China got its hands on the wreckage of a secret US "stealth" helicopter that crash-landed in the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011.
中国以前捞过英国直升机
One other option, of course, is to destroy the jet to stop it getting into the hands of Beijing.
"The easiest thing to do would be to torpedo it!" said one military officer
美国一个选项是发个鱼雷干掉。
@阿土仔 显然自毁不靠谱