In a message posted on Twitter, Taiwan said 60 fighter jets took part in the drills, including six SU-30s, which are among China’s most advanced aircraft.
China deployed 71 warplanes, including 60 fighter jets, during military exercises this weekend around Taiwan, Taipei’s Defense Ministry said today, and the island’s official Central News Agency said it was the biggest incursion to date. of the Chinese Air Force in the Taiwan Air Defense Zone.
Beijing announced that it held yesterday, Sunday, military high schools near the Taiwanwhich he claims, in response to the “challenges” and “synergy” between the United States and the island’s authorities.
In a message posted on Twitter, Taiwan said 60 fighter jets took part in the drills, including six SU-30s, which are among the most advanced aircraft at Taiwan’s disposal. China.
In its daily briefing, the Ministry of Defense also announced that 47 of these planes penetrated the island’s air defense zone.
According to the AFP database, it was the third largest daily raid on record.
China considers Taiwan, which has a population of 24 million, one of its provinces, which it has yet to reunite with the rest of its territory since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
He sees with displeasure the rapprochement established in recent years between the Taiwanese authorities and the US, which has for decades provided the island with military support against Beijing.
Beijing did not specify the number of aircraft mobilized for yesterday’s high schools or the exact location of those high schools.
Data from Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense shows that most of the incursions involved the southwestern tip of the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
Some Chinese planes also crossed the “middle line” along the Taiwan Strait.
Numerous countries maintain ADIZs, most notably the US, Canada, South Korea, Japan and China.
These zones do not coincide with the country’s airspace, but include a much wider zone so that the country has more time to identify a potential enemy plane and respond to a possible invasion.
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