China and Russia Fly Bombers Through the South Korean ADIZ

This is nothing new because both countries have conducted these joint flights before, but still this is not a very neighborly thing to do threatening your neighbors like this:

Two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ) without notice Wednesday, prompting the Air Force to scramble fighters to the scene, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

The planes’ entry into the KADIZ came as South Korea is pushing to strengthen its alliance with the United States amid an intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry, while maintaining its opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The JCS said the warplanes flew across the KADIZ but did not violate South Korea’s territorial air.

At 5:48 a.m., two Chinese H-6 bombers flew into the KADIZ from an area 126 kilometers northwest of Ieo Islet, a submerged rock south of the southern island of Jeju, and they left the KADIZ at 6:13 a.m.

At 6:44 a.m., the bombers reentered the KADIZ from an area northeast of South Korea’s southern port city of Pohang and exited the zone at 7:07 a.m.

Then six Russian aircraft — four TU-95 bombers and two SU-35 fighters — as well as two Chinese H-6 bombers flew into the KADIZ from an area 200 km northeast of the South’s Ulleung Island at 12:18 p.m. and exited the zone at 12:36 p.m.

The two countries appeared to have engaged in a combined air exercise, observers said.

Yonhap

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setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

Remember KAL 007? Pepperidge Farms remembers…

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
1 year ago

It’s not air defense unless you defend it.

“Sorry, guys, it was Private Kim’s first day on the job so he took air defense a bit too seriously and was all over those launch buttons the moment he detected the invasion starting.

We have explained to him that all these zones are meaningless except for something to make a show of violating and something to make a show of complaining about.

Hopefully, we got that through to him so it doesn’t happen again.

Between you and me, though, he seems a bit thick so I’m not sure I’d test it.

He will be retiring in 20 years. Hopefully he figures out his job big on air and small on defense by theb. Hopefully.”

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