CHINESE AIR FORCE SENT H-6 BOMBERS, SU-30 FIGHTER JETS TO SCARBOROUGH SHOAL
Posted on August 7, 2016
China’s air force sent several H-6 bombers and Su-30 fighter jets to inspect the airspace around the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, Senior Colonel Shen Jinke of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force said.
The official Xinhua News Agency quoted military spokesman Shen as saying Saturday that the air force had sent aircraft, including several H-6K bombers, Su-30 fighters, early warning aircraft, reconnaissance planes and planes that can refuel in flight to airspace in the area.
“The flight is part of actual combat training to improve the air force’s response to security threats,” Shen was quoted as saying.
“The air force is organizing normalized South China Sea combat patrols, practicing tactics … increasing response capabilities to all kinds of security threats and safeguarding national sovereignty, security and maritime interests,” Shen added.
On Tuesday, Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan warned of maritime security threats and called for increased preparations for what he termed a “people’s war at sea,” urging the military, police and public to prepare for mobilization to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Washington has conducted so-called freedom of navigation operations approximately every three months near some of China’s man-made islands in the waters.
The U.S. has also flown A-10C attack planes through international airspace in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal, just 124 nautical miles northwest of the Philippines mainland.
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