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abc123

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SamuraiBlue said:
What is the problem?
They had freedom of navigation within EEZ.
PLAN sails within Japanese EEZ all the time.
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Problem is in that it's provocative. I know they have the right. But it isn't the same if Chinese ships sail trough Japanese EEZ around Senkaku Islands or between Ryu Kyu/Korean Strait where are international waterways, or if they sail say 150 km SE of Shikoku...
 
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Pmichael

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abc123 said:
Problem is in that it's provocative. I know they have the right. But it isn't the same if Chinese ships sail trough Japanese EEZ around Senkaku Islands or between Ryu Kyu/Korean Strait where are international waterways, or if they sail say 150 km SE of Shikoku...
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For China everything is being provacative. It's an useful political tool to get the own people behind the party.
 
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abc123 said:
Problem is in that it's provocative. I know they have the right. But it isn't the same if Chinese ships sail trough Japanese EEZ around Senkaku Islands or between Ryu Kyu/Korean Strait where are international waterways, or if they sail say 150 km SE of Shikoku...
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I truly do not believe you understand the meaning of Provocative is in military terms.
Sailing within EEZ of another nation is done by various Navies all the time through out the world.
Unless it was heading straight towards shores at full speed with radars at maximum power, it should not alert any nation.
The ship could have just been avoiding a storm.
 
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ougoah

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Yeah no big deal. Everyone does it all the time this is true and PLAN is no "better". But all sides always cry about it when another "intrudes". So nothing out of the usual here. USN and AF does this all the time to China and Russia. Russia does it to Scandinavian countries, China does it to Taiwan (because PRC considers the island part of the PRC). Everyone does it, everyone bitches. Let's move on. The article is reporting on a set of facts but due to the sensitive nature of these things, it also provokes emotions.
 
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Skywatcher

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Rettam Stacf said:
The article said that the incidence occurred about 650 km (~400 miles) west of Yakushima.

Yakushima is an island at the southern tip of Japan, and about the same latitude as Shanghai. From Google Map, with eyeballing, Yakushima and Shanghai are approximately 500 miles apart. So the incidence occurred about 100 miles off the Chinese coast, and well within China's exclusive economic zone. Of course, the article would not bother to mention this.

Just wondering what was the Japanese destroyer doing there that triggered the collision.
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Most likely someone on the destroyer screwed up (since the DDG is presumably the more maneuverable vessel, it has the obligation to maneuver out of the fishing ship).
 
SamuraiBlue

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Although this was pretty obvious;

Japan rejects foreign plans for next-generation fighter

The Japanese Ministry of Defense's (MoD's) Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has confirmed to Jane's that it plans to pursue a Japan-led development project of a next-generation fighter aircraft, rejecting proposals by foreign manufacturers, including the one by Lockheed Martin to develop a new stealthy aircraft by combining elements of the F-22 and F-35 fifth-generation fighters.

Tokyo aims to replace the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's (JASDF's) Mitsubishi F-2 fighter aircraft with a future fighter in the 2030s.

"Based on previous discussions, the option of 'developing derivatives of existing fighters' cannot be a candidate from the perspective of a Japan-led development, and the MoD has come to the conclusion that we will develop a new model, and also this has been communicated to Lockheed Martin," an ATLA spokesperson told Jane's on 1 April.

"We recognise we have built up enough technology to make a fighter development project possible domestically," he added, pointing out, however, that, as mentioned in the MoD's Mid-Term Defense Program (MTDP), the project includes the possibility of international collaboration.

As Jane's reported on 11 March, the United Kingdom and the United States emerged as the front-runners in Japan's fighter development project - called 'F-X' - following a series of requests for information (RFIs) in 2018.

The US offer is known to include a 'hybrid' of technologies and design features from the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor multirole fighter and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, although companies including Boeing and Northrop Grumman also responded to the RFIs and would likely play a role in an inter-government project.

The UK partnership offer would be led by BAE Systems but would similarly involve other UK companies. This would be framed around some of the technologies and design features of the Tempest conceptual fighter that the UK is planning to develop.....to read further,
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So it is not going to be a F-22/F-35 hybrid and Japan will be taking the initiatives.
 
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XavNN

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The HVGP could eventually target large surface ships such as aircraft carriers, as demonstrated in this video which Naval News obtained exclusively from ATLA, the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency of the Japanese M.O.D.

 
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