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Japan protests after 'Russian' plane enters airspace
Yahoo ^ | 56 minutes ago 2015-09-16 | AFP

Posted on 09/16/2015 3:07:15 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

Tokyo (AFP) - Japan has lodged a protest with Russia after scrambling four jet fighters to intercept a foreign aircraft -- believed to be Russian -- which briefly violated its airspace, officials said Wednesday.

The foreign ministry made the protest shortly after the plane entered Japanese airspace off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, near a disputed island chain, on Tuesday afternoon.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: airspace; hokkaido; japan; kuril; plane; russia; russian

1 posted on 09/16/2015 3:07:15 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

All of this will come to an end if they were to “splash” one.


2 posted on 09/16/2015 5:13:25 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: WhiskeyX

More and more the airspace invaders are Chinese, not Russian.

China has to go much, muuuuuch further out of her way to do so, and she often does now.

Now its prolly about 75% China, 25% Russia, and most of the Russian ones are not deliberate.

The more intersting stories center on subs. There it must be totally hair raising.


3 posted on 09/16/2015 5:34:04 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Ouderkirk

Retarded, yeah, murder a crew on a patrol plane and a lot of things could come to an end.


4 posted on 09/16/2015 5:45:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but comSUrfmunists just ran for office)
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