Five Chinese Warplanes Enter Korea's Air Defense Zone Prompting South Korea To Scramble Fighter Jets

Newsweek: Chinese Warplanes Enter Korea Air Defense Zone Prompting South Korea to Scramble Fighter Jets

South Korean fighter jets made an emergency sortie to escort five Chinese warplanes out of the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ), Seoul’s military said Monday.

The South Korean joint chiefs of staff identified two H-6 bombers, two J-11 fighter jets and one TU-154 reconnaissance plane entering the KADIZ on Monday morning, local media reported, from the area over the Socotra Rock, before flying out three and a half hours later.

“Our fighter planes took normal tactical measures, identifying the models of the Chinese planes and flying aerial surveillance until they left,” the South Korean military said, as quoted by Reuters.

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WNU Editor: Welcome to the new normal. South Korea was not the only country that received a Chinese fly-by .... PLA warplanes spotted again near Taiwan, Japan (Asia Times)

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