Posted on 06/27/2026 6:27:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
South Korea said it had sent up fighter jets as a precaution after more than 10 Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered its air defence zone today.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul said the Chinese and Russian aircraft had entered and then left the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) over the East Sea and the South Sea.
“South Korea’s military detected the Chinese and Russian aircraft before they entered the zone and deployed Air Force fighter jets to prepare for any contingency,” it said in a statement, without giving more details.
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An air defence identification zone is not sovereign airspace but a buffer area where countries identify approaching aircraft for security purposes.
Beijing’s defence ministry said in a statement that the Chinese and Russian air forces conducted a “strategic air patrol” over the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean, “demonstrating their determination and capability to jointly uphold regional peace and stability”.
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heh, whiny pro commie president lee of sk, he sucks so bad, i’m sure the blue house curse will hit him too.
Red China is training Russian troops for the European war, and with the Russian army and the North Korean army fighting alongside each other in Europe, this is troubling.
He’s on good terms with Trump, and the two of them per South Korean news outlets both left and right, are recently working behind the scenes to restart appeasement talks with the communist North, in case you haven’t noticed.
Over a recent five-year period, Russia made approximately 60 incursions into KADIZ. While Beijing and Moscow routinely cite "routine training" or international airspace rights for these maneuvers, Seoul frequently scrambles fighter jets as a precaution.
Ok so the SORKS have an appeaser running the country.
If those planes were shot down over land it would be proof of their encroachment-a shoot down would be justified. The Chicom/Russians would not retaliate because then who would they have to deal with? Encroach over the water-harder to prove. When our interceptors are dispatched in Alaska I doubt the Russian airplanes encroach over land.
Do the Russians really have enough aircraft to fight a war over Korea or anywhere else in East Asia? They seem to put up a good front but I don’t know about their numbers.
It is message sending, not a challenge to fight.
SK is slowly becoming Commie on their own. No shots will be needed.
“Russia, which does not recognize Air Defense Identification Zones”
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I wonder if the ruskies would recognize a “Missile Lock Identification Zone.”
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Important distinction, the ADIZ is a ‘made up’ thing, it’s not a matter of international law.
The South Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) extends up to 250 nautical miles (approx. 460 km) from the coast at its farthest point. Because it is designed to monitor approaching aircraft, it extends far into international airspace beyond the country's 12 nautical mile sovereign territorial waters.
This is really much ado about nothing. Nothing that hasn’t gone on for decades since even before the Cold War ‘ended’.
No, not really. The war in Ukraine has shown what a paper tiger the Russian Air Force is. They don’t run on anything like the tempo of the U.S.
America’s SEAD capability has to be pretty terrifying to the Russians in they were caught in a fight with us.
“…The missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t. If the difference of the distance between where it is and where it isn’t ever reaches zero—-“
South Korea bought the military robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics. Maybe giant bird robots are next.
well, i’m very sure the sentiment from taiwan and japan is different.
lee’s sunshine policy towards nk will bring ruins
however, i have no solution, korean politics are strange with such a power link to the ... uh wealth group
Hey, that’s what you get for voting in a leftwing Christ-hating a-hole as your president.
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