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Lieutenant General
Here is the translation. Guess when they said "get used to it" they really meant it
More than 10 Chinese military aircraft fly over Bashi Strait
The incident that took place at the end of September last year when by the Miyako Strait seems to be repeating itself yesterday, but this time we are talking about "only A dozen planes and this also concerns another exit to the Pacific Ocean for the Chinese army, namely the Strait of Bashi.
185 km wide, it is one of three international waterways located between the islands of Taiwan in the north and Luzon in the Philippines in the south. It also marks the passage from the South China Sea to the west and the Philippine Sea to the east. The Chinese nuclear launching submarines such as the Type 09IV pass there regularly to enter the Western Pacific where they carry out their mission of strategic deterrence against the United States.
gave little detail on this crossing of Chinese aircraft, it simply mentions that a Chinese squadron, including H-6, Y-8, Tu-154, IL -78 and Su-30, overflew Bashi Strait in the morning to conduct a "long-range deep-sea training across the chain of islands" (跨 島鏈 遠 海 長 航 訓練) in the western Pacific .
Taiwanese Minister FENG in Joint Operations Command Center yesterday (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
One of the H-6K bombers during yesterday's flyover (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
An ELINT Y-8CB aircraft of the Chinese Air Force (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
An IL-78 tanker and one of the heavy fighter Su-30MKK (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
It was the Taiwanese media that finally revealed several interesting details about these Chinese maneuvers - Taiwan Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世 寬) was in the middle of a debate in Parliament to answer MPs' questions about the program's corruption scandal. construction of the minesweepers involving the Italian Intermarine and the American Lockheed Martin, when he was informed of the arrival of Chinese aircraft.
Interrupted by the incident, FENG told Taiwanese MPs that the Chinese squadron with "more than 10 aircraft" was on a "very realistic attack route", and that the Taiwanese AWACS as well as the F-16 fighters took off for ask Chinese planes to leave the island's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Photos taken by the Taiwanese army and made public via the media show the presence of Chinese H-6K bombers , the Y-8CB and the Tu-154M / D for electronic intelligence, as well as the Su-30MKK fighter bombers and a IL-78 tanker . The exact number of each type of device was not provided.
So we find here almost the same composition as the Chinese fleet during their flight over the Miyako Strait in September 2016, except the AWACS KJ-200 which was not present yesterday. A fleet composition that seems to be that of a long-range strike conducted by the H-6K and escorted by ELINT planes and heavy fighters, whose target is clearly not Taiwan but Guam, the largest US base in the western Pacific.
Taiwanese ADIZ, Bashi Strait, Miyako Strait and the two main Pacific exits for China (Image: East Pendulum)
It should be noted that the ELINT Tu-154M / D aircraft, registered B-4016, has already participated in the two Miyako Strait overflight operations that took place last weekend, at 18 and 19 November.
All of these last fly-bys should therefore be considered together as a planned and focused operation, and what are the triggering events in the area, or whether it is an isolated and long-standing maneuver in the annual training plan of the Chinese army.
Henri K.
More than 10 Chinese military aircraft fly over Bashi Strait
The incident that took place at the end of September last year when by the Miyako Strait seems to be repeating itself yesterday, but this time we are talking about "only A dozen planes and this also concerns another exit to the Pacific Ocean for the Chinese army, namely the Strait of Bashi.
185 km wide, it is one of three international waterways located between the islands of Taiwan in the north and Luzon in the Philippines in the south. It also marks the passage from the South China Sea to the west and the Philippine Sea to the east. The Chinese nuclear launching submarines such as the Type 09IV pass there regularly to enter the Western Pacific where they carry out their mission of strategic deterrence against the United States.
gave little detail on this crossing of Chinese aircraft, it simply mentions that a Chinese squadron, including H-6, Y-8, Tu-154, IL -78 and Su-30, overflew Bashi Strait in the morning to conduct a "long-range deep-sea training across the chain of islands" (跨 島鏈 遠 海 長 航 訓練) in the western Pacific .
Taiwanese Minister FENG in Joint Operations Command Center yesterday (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
One of the H-6K bombers during yesterday's flyover (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
An ELINT Y-8CB aircraft of the Chinese Air Force (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
An IL-78 tanker and one of the heavy fighter Su-30MKK (Photo: 中華民國 國防部)
It was the Taiwanese media that finally revealed several interesting details about these Chinese maneuvers - Taiwan Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世 寬) was in the middle of a debate in Parliament to answer MPs' questions about the program's corruption scandal. construction of the minesweepers involving the Italian Intermarine and the American Lockheed Martin, when he was informed of the arrival of Chinese aircraft.
Interrupted by the incident, FENG told Taiwanese MPs that the Chinese squadron with "more than 10 aircraft" was on a "very realistic attack route", and that the Taiwanese AWACS as well as the F-16 fighters took off for ask Chinese planes to leave the island's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Photos taken by the Taiwanese army and made public via the media show the presence of Chinese H-6K bombers , the Y-8CB and the Tu-154M / D for electronic intelligence, as well as the Su-30MKK fighter bombers and a IL-78 tanker . The exact number of each type of device was not provided.
So we find here almost the same composition as the Chinese fleet during their flight over the Miyako Strait in September 2016, except the AWACS KJ-200 which was not present yesterday. A fleet composition that seems to be that of a long-range strike conducted by the H-6K and escorted by ELINT planes and heavy fighters, whose target is clearly not Taiwan but Guam, the largest US base in the western Pacific.
Taiwanese ADIZ, Bashi Strait, Miyako Strait and the two main Pacific exits for China (Image: East Pendulum)
It should be noted that the ELINT Tu-154M / D aircraft, registered B-4016, has already participated in the two Miyako Strait overflight operations that took place last weekend, at 18 and 19 November.
All of these last fly-bys should therefore be considered together as a planned and focused operation, and what are the triggering events in the area, or whether it is an isolated and long-standing maneuver in the annual training plan of the Chinese army.
Henri K.
