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sl8

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Sun Apr 30, 2023, 05:56 PM Apr 2023

U.S. Navy P-8 Flies Over Taiwan Strait, Causing China to Scramble

https://news.usni.org/2023/04/28/u-s-navy-p-8-flies-over-taiwan-strait-causing-china-to-scramble

U.S. Navy P-8 Flies Over Taiwan Strait, Causing China to Scramble

By: Heather Mongilio
April 28, 2023 12:06 PM

A P-8A Poseidon, assigned to the “Fighting Tigers” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 8, takes off from Misawa Air Base, April 18, 2022. U.S. Navy Photo

China’s People’s Liberation Army scrambled fighter jets to monitor a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon that flew over the Taiwan Strait Friday, according to U.S. and Chinese statements.

The P-8A flew over the Taiwan Strait in international airspace early Friday local time, according to a U.S. Navy news release.

“The aircraft’s transit of the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the Navy statement reads. “The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate anywhere international law allows including within the Taiwan Strait.”

Chinese Col. Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command, called the aircraft’s transit “provocative.”

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U.S. Navy P-8 Flies Over Taiwan Strait, Causing China to Scramble (Original Post) sl8 Apr 2023 OP
The P-8 can sink a submarine from 30,000 feet in the air. Irish_Dem Apr 2023 #1
Taiwan historically has better soy sauce Tetrachloride Apr 2023 #2
I always buy Taiwanese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thailand The Unmitigated Gall Apr 2023 #3

Irish_Dem

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1. The P-8 can sink a submarine from 30,000 feet in the air.
Sun Apr 30, 2023, 06:03 PM
Apr 2023

It is one hell of an aircraft.

I bet the Chinese scrambled.

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