The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The territorial violation by China is the latest in a series of events amplifying tensions between Beijing and Japan.

A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.

According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.

While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.

  • BuelldozerAEnglish
    11•18 days ago

    I mean, we’re saying this with a Boeing Starliner stranded at the ISS.

    Meanwhile another US company, which is also a defense contractor, has revolutionized the space industry. It regularly launches satellites by the dozens and can rendezvous with the ISS anytime that NASA asks. The fact that one company, Boeing, is struggling with a product means absolutely nothing to the industry as a whole.

    But sure, America has a super-secret anti-hypersonic missile system that’s just like the Iron Dome

    It’s absolutely no secret. It’s a Patriot System and it’s quite capable of handling the laughable “Hypersonic Missiles”, i.e. repurposed non maneuvering ballistic trajectory junk from the 80s and 90s, that adversaries field today.

    Does the US have perfect gear that never fails? Absolutely not, some of our stuff is junk or near junk, but when it comes to this kind of thing the the US has no peer.

    You’re even fan-casting the existence of anti-missile systems the US admits it doesn’t have.

    We we have an entire Department dedicated to it along with platforms like SBX-1 and THAAD (among other things.)

    Again its not perfect but it definitely exists and it gets better every single year.