Now China is in for it....Japan's REAL defender has been called in...
Posted on 11/09/2005 5:23:57 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Japan Scrambles Fighters 30 Times to Repel Chinese
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
TOKYO — Japanese fighter jets have been scrambled 30 times to turn away Chinese planes approaching Japan's airspace in the last six months, more than twice the 13 times in the same period last year, officials said Wednesday.
The increased defensive posture reflects the growing tensions between Japan and China, which are squabbling over interpretations of their wartime past, undersea gas deposits, and ownership of East China Sea islands.
An Air Self Defense Force spokesman said Japan's fighter jets had scrambled 30 times in response to what were believed to be Chinese military planes in the six months from April to September. Japan's fiscal year starts in April.
The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with agency policy, added that fighter jets also have been deployed since October, but declined to say how many times.
That would surpass the record-high 30 scramblings in response to Chinese planes in all of 1998. Japan began keeping track of the number of fighter jet mobilizations against specified countries in 1995.
Another official of the Air Self Defense Force declined to comment on the types of Chinese planes or what they were doing. He said there have been no major confrontations between Japanese fighter jets and foreign military planes in 2005.
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This on going war with Islam is buried in the very deep past.
Hatred and revenge transcend generations. It is very real.
I think that holds true for western civilization in general.
and the next day you are equal to the usa in technology,
literally, and recently. a few files sent by email and walla. our comsec in our government sucks.
Geez, we can't even keep a under-secretary from stealiing secrets in his socks. He only loses his clearance a couple of years, and the col. whistleblower who exposed the 9/11 failure loses it for life for taking a few skillcrafts.
I'd like to see that, too. Japan's population is simply too concentrated and vulnerable for them to ever fight an agressive war that they wouldn't quickly loose (it would be WW2 all over again for them) but I'd love for them to have a doomsday arsenal able to keep the Chinese and North Koreas out on their own.
Now China is in for it....Japan's REAL defender has been called in...
Maybe to them, it was yesterday. To us, it was 60 years ago.
Hatred and revenge transcends generations.
If the Chinese wanted to get even with the Japanese, they should have done it 60 years ago, instead of making us do the heavy lifting.
What do you think, Jeff?
Chinese are very patient people. They still lay claim to part of Siberian Russia, from long ago, and the Ruskies keep that in mind.
I beg your pardon!
Those dots look like a bulleyes
The Chinese are testing and gathering data. I would be interested in knowing what types of aircraft the Japanese are scrambling to inertcept. If it starts to be the new SU-30s the Chinese are buying, or their export license built J-11's (SU-27s), then that would be even more indication of this IMHO.
No, not "exactly."
China today has the U.S. as its largest customer; Japan in 1930 did **not** have that situation. It was reversed, actually. Japan in 1930 bought its oil from the U.S.
Japan had limited options to replace its energy needs when U.S. oil was embargoed...options that required either military conquests or political retreat.
China today is in a very different situation. It can't expand its exports by invading other countries.
Of course, but those incursions may also mean that China is testing Japan's response time in order to guage Taiwan's defenses (similar technology in place for both Japan and Taiwan)...or to make a political statement...for bargaining...for North Korean consumption...or a variety of hostile reasons that are more newsworthy than merely upping tensions with Japan itself.
My understanding is that a position paper has already been released some time back, whereby Japan could be nuclear within 90 days of formal government approval. Essentially, the ducks are already in a row, contingency plans exist, and all that's missing is the t's needing crossing, and i's dotted.
I've noticed this quite a bit, too. Especially with things like apple juice and novelty candy. I almost picked up a couple bags of Krabby Patty candy to hand out at Halloween till I saw where it was coming from. A lot of the generic juices seem to be coming from there, too.
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