Taiwan for the first time tracked People’s Liberation Army fighters with surface-to-air missile radars on Monday, a tactic that could become more common in the future, an observer said. The Taiwanese defence ministry said it used the systems to tail and expel the PLA J-10 and J-11 fighter jets, which crossed the “median line” of […]
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Chinese warplane sightings near Taiwan could be sign of South China Sea deployment or combat training For the seventh time in less than two weeks, a Chinese fighter jet approached Taiwan’s airspace on Sunday (June 21) in what could be part of a new deployment in the South China Sea (SCS) or combat training originating […]
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Chinese air force aircraft approached Taiwan on Thursday for the fifth time in 10 days, before being warned away by Taiwanese fighters, the island’s air force said, in a further ratcheting up of tensions across the sensitive Taiwan Strait. The Chinese J-10 and J-11 fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of Taiwan’s air defence […]
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Taiwan air force jets “drove away” a Chinese fighter plane that briefly entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, reporting the third intrusion in a week. The single J-10 fighter was given radio warnings to leave before the Taiwanese air force jets ushered the intruder out of the airspace southwest […]
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Taiwan said a Chinese fighter jet briefly entered its air defence zone on Tuesday, the third incursion in a week, prompting the island to scramble its own aircraft in response. Beijing views democratic self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary. Taiwan scrambled aircraft after […]
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A Chinese J-10 fighter jet entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) Tuesday (June 16) morning, while two United States Air Force (USAF) KC-135 refuelling jets approached the island from the north and east, according to media reports. Despite the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Chinese warplanes have continued to violate Taiwan’s airspace over the past […]
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LONDON — An American fighter jet crashed on Monday on a routine training flight off the northeast coast of England, the United States Air Force said. A British search and rescue team was helping to search for the one pilot who was aboard. The jet, a U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle, was stationed at Royal […]
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Eight people were shot late Friday in a San Antonio parking lot by a man who, after being turned away from a bar, came back and opened fire with a rifle, the police said. The man became belligerent around 11:30 p.m. when he was denied entry to the bar, Rebar, in the city’s North Central […]
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Several Chinese fighter jets flew over Taiwan’s airspace on Tuesday (June 9) following reports of a US Navy transport jet seen flying directly over Taiwan. The Ministry of National Defense said several Sukhoi-30 (Su-30) fighter jets briefly flew over the southwestern part of the nation’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), and Taiwan’s Air Force quickly […]
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Chinese fighter jets briefly entered Taiwan’s airspace on Tuesday, forcing the island to scramble its own, Taipei said shortly after announcing plans for its largest annual live-fire military drill. The Taiwanese defence ministry said it broadcast warnings and “took active responses to dispel” multiple Chinese Su-30 fighters to the southwest of the island. “The military […]
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