Japan scrambled jets to monitor Chinese aircraft carrier operations

Japan stated on Monday that it had scrambled jet fighters and dispatched plane and warships over the previous two weeks to maintain tabs on China’s Liaoning plane provider and 5 warships that performed naval manoeuvres and flight operations within the Pacific.

Japan monitored the operations after the Chinese language naval group, which included missile destroyers, sailed between the primary Okinawa island and Miyakojima island into the Western Pacific from the East China Sea on Dec. 16, Japan’s Protection Ministry stated in a press launch.

Earlier than returning the identical means Sunday, the Chinese language provider performed greater than 300 take-offs and landings of fixed-wing plane and helicopters, the ministry added, though it didn’t report any incursions into Japanese territorial waters or skies.