Chinese Military Aircraft Probe Japanese Air Defenses

From Japan Probe.com:
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Chinese Military Aircraft Probe Japanese Air Defenses









Julian Ryall of the Telegraph reports on China’s increasingly aggressive probing of Japan’s air defenses:



In the last nine months, Japanese fighters have been scrambled to intercept Chinese intruders on 44 occasions, the highest figure in the last five years and more than double the number for the whole of fiscal 2006, the defence ministry officials said.



In another deviation from their previous behaviour, the Chinese aircraft are not turning home as soon as they realise they have been detected but are continuing on their courses until they make visual contact with Japanese interceptors.



Chinese reconnaissance aircraft are also increasingly entering Japan’s Air Defence Identification Zone. Although this is not a breach of territorial airspace, it does inevitably lead to interceptors being scrambled.









Source: http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/12/31/chinese-military-aircraft-probe-japanese-air-defenses/#comment-413340