A Japanese fighter jet fired a signal flare as a warning to the Russian military aircraft.
A Japanese fighter jet fired a signal flare as a warning for the first time after a Russian military aircraft intruded the country's airspace three times within three hours on Monday.The Russian Il-38 maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft flew north of Rebun Island three times from 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., violating Japanese airspace with each encroachment lasting for 30 seconds to one minute, the defense ministry in Japan reported.
is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security. It begins where sovereign airspace ends.The small island in the Sea of Japan is situated off the northwestern tip of Hokkaido, one of Japan's four main islands, and to the southwest of Russia's Sakhalin Island. To the east of it is the La Perouse Strait, an international waterway known as the Soya Strait.
previously. A pair of Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft circumnavigated around Japan, from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa Island in the south, on September 12.China, the quasi-ally of Russia, had sent a Y-9 reconnaissance aircraft near Japan's Danjo Islands in the East China Sea on August 26. The Chinese military aircraft breached the Japanese airspace for two minutes, marking the first such alleged intrusion on record.
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