S.Korea scrambles jets as Chinese, Russian aircraft enter air defence zone

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S.Korea scrambles jets as Chinese, Russian aircraft enter air defence zone
Dec 22 Reuters staff

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said it scrambled fighter jets in response to an intrusion into its air defence identification zone by 19 Russian and Chinese military aircraft on Tuesday.

Four Chinese warplanes entered the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) followed by 15 Russian aircraft, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

The South Korean military dispatched air force fighters to take tactical measures.

The South Korean military said the Chinese military had informed South Korea that its planes were carrying out routine training before the Chinese aircraft entered the KADIZ...

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-china-russia/s-korea-scrambles-jets-as-chinese-russian-aircraft-enter-air-defence-zone-idUSKBN28W139

Other recently interesting air operations in East Asia are reported by Aircraftspots on twitter:

Link to tweet

Apparently the forward deployed B-1b's went home on Dec. 19 according to Aircraftspots.

Hadn't seen this before:

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

1. Can the National Security Council meet without the president? nt

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2. China and Russia do a joint exercise is pretty sobering.

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4. CNN report on a somewhat similar incident in July 2019

Warplanes from four countries face off in Asian confrontation
By Ben Westcott, Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo, CNN
Updated 8:14 PM EDT, Tue July 23, 2019

(CNN) —
Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement claiming they had fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian A-50 command and control military aircraft early Tuesday morning after it had twice violated the country’s airspace, the first such incident between the countries.

Moscow furiously denied Seoul’s account of the encounter, claiming that South Korean military jets had dangerously intercepted two of its bombers during a planned flight over neutral waters.

But in a statement Tuesday afternoon, Japan’s Ministry of Defense backed up South Korea’s claims, saying the A-50 had flown over the islands and that Tokyo had scrambled fighters to intercept.

In a further complication, both South Korea and Japan said that two Chinese H-6 bombers had joined the Russian military aircraft on sorties through the region as well.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/asia/south-korea-russia-military-intl-hnk/index.html