Sourced : Asia Times By Frank Chen Six Chinese warplanes, including four H-6 strategic bombers, two electronic intelligence jets, one Tu-154MD and the other Y-8, flew past the Miyako Strait between Taiwan and Japan’s Okinawa prefecture on November 19, until the Japanese Self-defence Force scrambled jet fighters to monitor and intercept the flyover, Japan’s Ministry… Continue reading BEIJING WARPLANES RESUME “PATROLS” OVER TAIWAN AIRSPACE
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TURKEY SCRAPS HQ-9/FD-2000 CHINESE AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM AFTER TWO YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
Turkey’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that it had canceled the $3.4 billion (3.19 billion-euro) tender with a Chinese company to procure 12 air defence/antiballistic missile systems and in a second phase to co-develop a new indigenous long-range/high-altitude missile defense system to defend its airspace against warplanes and missile attack. NATO had become alarmed by… Continue reading TURKEY SCRAPS HQ-9/FD-2000 CHINESE AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM AFTER TWO YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS