A PLAAF H-6K (Image credit: JASDF)
Spike of Chinese “incursions” and presence of H-6K bombers (able to carry Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles) inside the south-western corner of Taiwan’s ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) amid escalating tensions in the region.
Thirteen Chinese combat aircraft (including 8x H-6K bombers, 4x J-16 fighters and 1x Y-8 Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft), followed the following day by 15 ones (2x Su-30, 4x J-16, 6x J-10, 2x Y-8 ASW and 1x Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft) entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s ADIZ between Saturday Jan. 23 and Sunday Jan. 24, 2021, the island’s defence ministry said.
Taiwan has an ADIZ, created by the United States Armed Forces after World War II, that covers most of Taiwan Strait, part of East China Sea and adjacent airspace. As per other ADIZs around the world, this Air Defense Identification Zone, is not defined in any international treaty and is not regulated by any international body: it is mostly over inter
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