The US Navy held an exercise called "Twin Aircraft Carriers" on New Year's Eve. The U.S. 7th Fleet announced that the destroyer USS Carl Vinson and the destroyer USS Roosevelt performed an operational cruise in the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the U.S. Navy has never been to the South China Sea, in fact, on February 6, the USS Roosevelt CVN71 retreated to the Apra Naval Base, and the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was nowhere to be found.
Now that the truth has surfaced, the CVN70 of the USS Carl Vinson Marine Corps has also left in a hurry, triggering all sorts of speculation. According to foreign ** reports, the Carl Vinson-class CVN70 landed near Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and underwent a brief reconditioning during this time. The Carl Vinson has also arrived in Hawaii. It is curious that the operational deployment of the Carl Vinson began in October next year, and there is not enough time to return to the United States yet.
The speculation about the emergency retreat of the Carl Vinson-class destroyers of the US Seventh Fleet was caused by an accident at sea in the United States. On January 26, a U.S. soldier reported that the landing gear in the cabin of an F-35C Lightning II fighter jet had been abruptly withdrawn after a flight, causing damage to the front. The accident most likely caused the U.S. Navy to halt the maintenance of the F-35C fighter, so that the CVN70 Carl Vinson was quickly returned to U.S. territory.
The USS Carl Vinson is equipped with F A-18E F, EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft, and 10 F-35C Lightning II. The F-35C is a fifth-generation fighter that is jointly equipped by the United States with the navies of both countries and will be used as an aircraft carrier configuration. As a result of the F-35C accident, the U.S. Navy will conduct a thorough inspection of all F-35Cs, so the CVN70 of the USS Carl Vinson has been recalled to the United States.
The U.S. Navy is also having trouble with other aircraft. A U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey crashed on November 30 next year due to mechanical problems, resulting in the US Navy CMV-22B and other V-22B*** including the US Navy MV-22B Magnum all out of production. When the CMV-22B had not yet returned to flight, the accident with the F-35C again caused a headache for the US Navy. A litany of problems plagued the US Navy, and even the F-22C fighters, including the Osprey of the CMV-35B, got bogged down.
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