South Korea fires warning shots at Russian [and Chinese] warplanes

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/south-korea-fires-warning-shots-at-russia-warplanes/2019/07/22/1687d94e-acf2-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html


SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean fired warning shots after a Russian military plane violated South Korea’s airspace on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.

Three Russian military planes initially violated South Korea’s aerial identification zone off its east coast before one of them entered the country’s territorial sky, the South’s Defense Ministry said.

South Korean fighter jets then scrambled to the area to fire warning shots, a ministry official said, requesting anonymity due to department rules.

The Russian plane left the area but it returned and violated the South Korean airspace again later Tuesday, the ministry official said. He said the South Korean fighter jets fired warning shots again.

It was the first time a Russian military plane violated South Korean airspace, according to South Korean officials.

The three Russian planes had violated the South Korean aerial identification zone with two Chinese military planes. But it wasn’t immediately known whether the two countries deliberated did so, according to the South Korean official.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it plans to summon Russian and Chinese Embassy officials later Tuesday to register formal protests.

Typical US journalist. Identification zone is not your territories. It just that the particular country has the right to challenge the unidentified aircraft. In this sense, only Russia aircraft enter SK airspace but Chinese aircraft enter SK IDZ only. Chinese side did not violate anything...

 

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I support to bring pressure on America in East Asia, it will help to force America divide military from Middle East.

 

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aerial identification zone is not airspace.

True. ADIZ is not territorial airspace.

But as usual, the western media will keep on repeating it to give people an impression that they are the same.

But as usual, you guys did not read the entire article, which said...

Three Russian military planes initially violated South Korea’s aerial identification zone off its east coast before one of them entered the country’s territorial sky, the South’s Defense Ministry said.

It was the first time a Russian military plane violated South Korean airspace, according to South Korean officials.

 

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True. ADIZ is not territorial airspace.


But as usual, you guys did not read the entire article, which said...

Three Russian military planes initially violated South Korea’s aerial identification zone off its east coast before one of them entered the country’s territorial sky, the South’s Defense Ministry said.

It was the first time a Russian military plane violated South Korean airspace, according to South Korean officials.

Just one sided story. No hard proof. Iran did a much better job, shot down US RQ-4A Global Hawk, picked it up from Sea Water, got a hard proof. US did violated Iran airspace.

 

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there were two violations of the SK airspace by the same Russian aircraft, IMO the first violation probably happened by mistake & when the SK fighter fired warning shoots the Russian pilot or his commanders probably felt offended by the warning shoots (because they thought retreating may make them look weak) so the aircraft went back to violate the airspace again.