Navy called a "routine" passage through international waters. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Friday, which the U.S. Taipei China sent 39 warplanes mostly fighter jets into Taiwan's air defense zone on Sunday, the island's government said, in the second-largest. The Chinese patrols and drills also coincided a transit by a U.S. So far today, 56 aircraft have done so, constituting the largest.
TAIWAN AIR DEFENSE ZONE UPGRADE
The incident came a day after Taiwan proposed boosting military spending by $8.7 billion over the next five years, including on new missiles, warning of an urgent need to upgrade weapons in the face of a "severe threat" from China. China today sent a record number of aircraft into the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ. Warships, early warning aircraft and bombers were deployed on Friday in patrols and drills aimed at improving the joint combat capabilities of China's military in the area, a spokesman for China's Eastern Theater Command said in a statement on Saturday. The Barrons news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. The Chinese fighters flew in an area close to the Pratas, while the anti-submarine and reconnaissance aircraft flew into the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines, according to a map that the ministry issued. Taiwan scrambled fighter jets on Friday, May 20, 2022, in response to 14 Chinese warplanes entering its air defense identification zone, including an H-6 bomber, as shown in this file photo from. Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. A Chinese Z-10 attack helicopter has, apparently, entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, for the first time and crossed the so-called median line.
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