TOKYO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan on Wednesday requested the U.S. military to ground all flights of its F-16 fighter jets based at the Misawa Air Base after one of them dumped two fuel tanks in a nearby lake after an engine fire just after takeof...
CHINA has sent two fighter jets to investigate US and Japanese military planes' entry into a disputed area of the East China Sea. Tensions in the volatile region have mounted since the Chinese Air Force stated that it 'escorted' foreign warplanes out of its newly-declared air defence ...
TOKYO, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese fighter jet crashed into the Sea of Japan during a training drill Wednesday morning, but its two crew members were rescued. The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) F-2 fighter jet went missing from radar around 9:18 a.m. local time off the ...
Japan's military said it had scrambled fighter jets after verifying that two Russian bombers had joined two Chinese bombers over the Sea of Japan and flown together as far as the East China Sea on Tuesday. There are no international rules governing air defence zones, unlike a country'...
Though it traces its origins at least to the 19th century, it acquired its current name in 2006. Under the 1947 constitution, the Japanese government is not permitted to wage war. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Defense operates the Japan Self-Defense Forces, which effectively act as a military...
is in the process of acquiring a fighter bomber with a radius of 3.700 kilometres .•.. 9 On the assumption that "offense is the best defense." her officers speak of building a 5.000 planeoairforce, such as Japan had during World War II. Needless to say. this military capa- bility ...
China eyes better military relations with the U.S.: spokesman Political advisors pool wisdom to revise water pollution prevention law Chinese political advisors on Thursday put their heads together to offer suggestions on the revision of the country's Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Poll...
The Japanese F-35A fighter jet, some wreckage of which has been found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast Aomori Prefecture, was on an air-to-air training mission and took off from Misawa Air Base in Japan's northeast at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, according to the Defense Minis...
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Last September, the US military groundedhalf of its entire fleetof F-35s following a crash in South Carolina. In 2017, a US F-35 deployed in Japanlost part of its fuselagemid-flight, during a routine training mission. READ MORE: Japanese fighter jet crashes into Sea of Japan, crew found...