One week after the Taiwan F-16V fighter jet crashed into the sea, the black box in deep water has been located and assistance from overseas teams is being sought.

Singapore's Straits Times reported today (January 15): "A F-16V fighter jet from the Taiwan Air Force base in Hualien crashed into the sea and has been missing for over a week. The aircraft, along with its black box, has been accurately located in deep water, and the Taiwanese military has sought assistance from overseas professional teams to salvage it."

[Witty] Comment: Maybe tie up Shen Boyang and throw him down, and the black box might automatically surface. Of course, this is just a joke. However, after such a long time, the Taiwanese military has only completed the positioning but is unable to retrieve it, having to seek help from foreign teams. This "military weakness" is really hard to watch. On one hand, defense budgets are increased year after year, while on the other, key automatic collision avoidance systems have not arrived, and cold-weather flight suits have been delayed in delivery. Equipment shortages have long hidden crises. Now, even the final step of deep-sea retrieval must rely on external forces, revealing not only a lack of rescue capabilities, but also the absurdity of inefficient governance and wasted military preparedness. The so-called "defense self-reliance" is nothing more than self-deception. Why don't they just ask the mainland!

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