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Japan scrambles jets after Russian bomber intrudes airspace

 
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shivendrashukla
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:30 pm    Post subject: Japan scrambles jets after Russian bomber intrudes airspace Reply with quote

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Tokyo: Japan scrambled fighter jets Thursday after a pair of Russian bombers briefly intruded into the country’s airspace, officials said.
The two Tu-95 planes breached airspace near the isle of Okinoshima off Fukuoka in southern Japan for nearly two minutes shortly after midday (0300 GMT), a defence ministry spokesman said.
“A total of four F-2 planes from the Air Self-Defence Force scrambled against them,” the official said.
The Japanese foreign ministry said it filed a formal protest with the Russian embassy in Tokyo over the violation and urged them to investigate it.
In February two Russian Su-27 fighters breached Japan’s airspace for just over a minute off the northern island of Hokkaido, Japanese officials said at that time, in what was reported to be the first such incident in five years.
Tokyo and Moscow never signed a peace treaty after World War II. Despite an important commercial relationship, they remain at loggerheads over the sovereignty of islands north of the Japanese main island of Hokkaido.
Japan is also at odds with China over the sovereignty of an island chain near Taiwan, in a particularly bitter dispute that has seen both sides scramble aircraft.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank God it was a Tu-95 `Bear', and not one fo the Mig-25RV `Foxbats' the Russian AF still has. For an intrusion-by=mistake, they may have had to touch the US air space in the process of turning back to base Razz
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