Kineserne ypper seg mot P-8A over Sør Kinahavet - Stars & Stripes

 

Dette skjer stadig vekk, men typen "harassment" blir mer og mer alvorlig, mener US Navy. Det er vanskelig å si noe om avstand mellom flyene ut av dette bildet. Det ser ut som om det er et EO (Elektro Optisk)  "skudd". (Red.)

Pentagon releases images to show ‘sharp rise’ in risky behavior by Chinese pilots

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DOUG G. WARE

STARS AND STRIPES • October 17, 2023

Images and video newly released by the Defense Department capture a Chinese fighter jet in the course of conducting a coercive and risky intercept against a lawfully operating U.S. asset in the East China Sea. Over the course of five hours, four Chinese aircraft conducted this intercept, at one point reaching a distance of just 75 feet from the U.S plane. (Defense Department)

WASHINGTON — There has been a sharp increase in risky behavior by Chinese pilots in the South China Sea in the past two years, U.S. defense officials said Tuesday, releasing newly declassified images and video to support their claim.

“Since the fall of 2021, we have seen more than 180 such incidents — more in the past two years than in the decade before that,” said Ely Ratner, the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs. “That’s nearly 200 cases where [Chinese] operators have performed reckless maneuvers, or discharged [anti-radar measures], or shot off flares, or approached too rapidly or too close to U.S. aircraft.”