American defense treaty allies South Korea and Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday in response to long-range air patrols by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers, their militaries said.
The warplane formations merged in the Sea of Japan, or what both Koreas call the East Sea, before carrying out the joint exercises in South Korea’s air defense identification zone within international airspace, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Defense Ministry in Tokyo published a map of the flight paths through Northeast Asia, said the Japan Air Self-Defense Force launched fighter aircraft to monitor and photograph the movements.
The joint patrols featuring strategic assets from the Russian Air Force and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force were the seventh of their kind and the second such exercise this year following similar sorties in June.It was a sign of growing security collaboration between Moscow and Beijing, two quasi-allies who have found […]
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