Japan scrambles fighter jets that shoot flares to warn Russian spy ...
WEB1 day ago · Japan and Russia are in a territorial dispute over a group of Russian-held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II. ... Eight Russian military planes ...
Russian Military Plane Breaches Japan’s Airspace - The New York …
WEB1 day ago · Minoru Kihara, Japan’s defense minister, said that Japan’s military had dispatched F-15 and F-35 fighter jets but that there had been “no particularly dangerous acts by the Russian aircraft ...
Japan fighters fire flares after Russian military plane enters airspace
WEB1 day ago · Sep 23, 2024. Japan scrambled fighter jets Monday after a Russian surveillance plane entered Japanese airspace three times, the Defense Ministry said, with Air Self-Defense Force fighters ...
Japan says Russian patrol aircraft violated its airspace - NBC News
WEB12 hours ago · By Reuters. TOKYO — A Russian military patrol aircraft violated Japanese airspace near Hokkaido’s Rebun Island on three separate occasions on Monday, prompting Japan’s Self-Defense Force to ...
Japanese warplanes use flares to warn Russian spy plane | AP News
WEB1 day ago · TOKYO (AP) — Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the Russian Il-38 plane breached Japan’s airspace above Rebun Island, just off the coast of the country’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, for up to a minute in three instances, during ...
In a First, Japan Fires Flares Against Russian Military Aircraft
WEB17 hours ago · September 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM EDT. Save. Japanese fighter jets fired warnings flares against a Russian military aircraft that Tokyo said repeatedly entered the country’s territorial airspace, in ...
Russian military plane violates Japan airspace, SDF fires flare
WEB1 day ago · Japan's Defense Ministry said Monday that a Russian military aircraft violated its airspace three times, prompting an Air Self-Defense Force fighter jet to fire a signal flare for the first time ever, with Tokyo lodging an "extremely stern protest" with Moscow. An IL-38 patrol plane flew over waters in the Sea of Japan north of Rebun Island in ...
Japanese warplanes use flares to warn a Russian spy plane to leave ...
WEB1 day ago · The Associated Press. TOKYO -- Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara ...
Japan says Russian patrol plane ‘violates’ its airspace three times
WEB1 day ago · Japanese F-15 and F-35 fighter jets warned the Russian military over the radio before firing flares during the third incursion, the defence minister added and said he has called on the Russian ...
Japan scrambled jets after Russian military aircraft circled country
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian military aircraft flew around the archipelago for the first time in five years, Tokyo said Friday. From Thursday morning to afternoon, two Russian...