military forces we Thursday (29) announced that a Chinese military aircraft came within 6 meters of a plane belonging to the country’s air force last week. The operation forced the Americans to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid collision in international airspace over the South China Sea.
The incident comes as the United States warns of a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese military aircraft.
The US military said in a statement that the incident, which involved a Chinese Navy J-11 fighter jet and a US Air Force RC-135, occurred on December 21.
“The U.S. Indo-Pacific Joint Force is dedicated to a free and open Indo-Pacific and will continue to fly, sail, and operate in international sea and airspace with due consideration for the safety of all ships and aircraft under international law,” the statement added.
In a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in November, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin raised the need to improve communications in a crisis and pointed to what he called the dangerous behavior of Chinese military aircraft.
The Australian Ministry of Defense said in June that a Chinese fighter jet seriously intercepted an Australian military reconnaissance aircraft in the North Sea region. China the South.
Australia said that the Chinese aircraft flew close to the RAAF aircraft and released small pieces of aluminum that were sucked into the engine of the Australian aircraft.
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