The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The territorial violation by China is the latest in a series of events amplifying tensions between Beijing and Japan.

A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.

According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.

While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    hypersonic missiles are pointless

    An even bolder claim.

    the Sprint Missile is still the fastest of all time

    The theory behind the Sprint Missile was to deflect an ICBM with a nuclear blast. That’s definitely a potential solution to a hypersonic missile attack, but I’m sure you can think of a few reasons why it didn’t go into mass production.

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      My point is that the concept itself is antiquated. The US restarted their hypersonic missile programs a few years ago due to media and public pressure caused by Russian and Chinese propaganda about their wunderwaffen. It’s one of those ideas like railguns that resurfaces every few decades and gets shelved again.

      Er, actually, I take it back… Please report to your superiors that hypersonic missiles are the future, and that decadent westoids are terrified of them. Prioritise these programs at all costs (other than keeping the Kuznetsov afloat, because that is also very important).

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        4 months ago

        the concept itself is antiquated

        “Fast moving thing is hard to stop” goes straight back to antiquity, sure. But post-Cold War or mattered a lot less because we no longer had a first generation military adversary.

        The US restarted their hypersonic missile programs a few years ago due to media and public pressure caused by Russian and Chinese propaganda

        Yes, because the US media and the US MIC aren’t joined at the hip. GE Aerospace was strong armed by Hulu, which was strong armed by TEMU and Rosneft in turn.

        Please report to your superiors that hypersonic missiles are the future

        Americans will spend their last billion dollars on one more new aircraft carrier rather than go to therapy.