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Japanese fighter jets fire flares at Russian aircraft for first time in airspace violation
Defence minister says ‘strong protest’ lodged with Moscow amid growing concerns about Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the region
Japan said its fighter jets used flares for the first time to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave its airspace, the defence ministry in Tokyo said, as tensions rise over increasing Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the region.
An undisclosed number of F-15 and F-35 warplanes were scrambled and fired flares on Monday after the Russian II-38 maritime patrol aircraft apparently ignored their radio warnings, Japan’s defence minister, Minoru Kihara said.
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