Three Chinese bombers flew over Okinawa over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday (June 23) afternoon and returned. Japanese fighter jets scrambled for surveillance.
According to a report by Kyodo News on June 24, the Ministry of Defense of Japan’s Integrated Staff and Supervision Department announced on the 23rd that three H-6 bombers of the Chinese military flew from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean on the afternoon of the 23rd, passing between the main island of Okinawa and Miyako Island. Up in the sky, then back. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter jets scrambled into the air that day for surveillance.
According to reports, the Japanese Defense Ministry revealed that three Chinese bombers that flew over Okinawa formed a formation and flew over the Pacific Ocean that day, and then circled each other. Subsequently, the three bombers returned to mainland China from the East China Sea.
In the waters around Japan, Japan this month found Chinese naval vessels sailing around the Japanese archipelago and sailing through the waters off Okinawa to the Pacific, the report said.
According to Japan’s NHK website on the 23rd, citing sources from the Japanese Defense Ministry, three Chinese naval vessels and five Russian naval vessels sailed around the Japanese archipelago along a similar route on June 21. Since the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that a large-scale exercise involving at least 40 ships will be held in the Pacific this month, the Japanese Defense Ministry analyzed that the five Russian naval ships may go to participate in the exercise. At present, the Japanese Ministry of Defense is analyzing the navigational purposes of Chinese and Russian naval vessels and stepping up monitoring.