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ASDF plane took evasive action after Chinese fighter’s threatening move: ex-commander
A Chinese fighter aircraft made a threatening move as if to attack an Air Self-Defense Force airplane over the East China Sea, prompting the Japanese plane to take evasive action, according to an article written by a former Japanese commander and published Tuesday on an online news site.
A senior Defense Ministry official later told Kyodo News that those details in the article published in Japanese on the Japan Business Press website are essentially true. Neither the article nor the Defense Ministry official said when the incident occurred.
The article written under the byline Kunio Orita, the former head of the ASDF Air Support Command, said, “Chinese aircraft have come to take very provocative actions in conjunction with developments at sea,” referring to recent Chinese naval ships sailing near and even entering Japanese waters.
The article referred to a Chinese frigate sailing just outside Japanese waters in the contiguous zone and near the Japan-controlled, China-claimed Senkaku Islands on June 9.
It also mentioned another Chinese naval ship entering on June 15 Japanese territorial waters near Kuchinoerabu Island south of Kyushu.
The article said a Chinese fighter “took a motion to attack” an ASDF plane that had been scrambled. It said the Japanese plane then left the area after the pilot decided it could be involved in “a dogfight which could develop into an unexpected contingency.”
The article also said the Japanese aircraft “utilized a device for self defense” to divert a possible missile attack. It is believed that the device was a flare deployed to draw away any infrared-guided missile.
“Chinese planes used to maintain a certain distance from ASDF planes and engage in relatively inhibited behavior” in close encounters before, the article said. “This time, the situation changed completely,” it added.
Orita, who used to be an ASDF fighter jet pilot, said it is possible such an encounter could develop into an air collision or missile-firing.
“The government should take the incident seriously and call on China to refrain from taking such action,” he wrote.
Orita joined the Air Self-Defense Force after graduating from the National Defense Academy in 1974. He became the Commander of Air Support Command in 2006 and retired in 2009.
ASDF plane took evasive action after Chinese fighter’s threatening move: ex-commander
A Chinese fighter aircraft made a threatening move as if to attack an Air Self-Defense Force airplane over the East China Sea, prompting the Japanese plane to take evasive action, according to an article written by a former Japanese commander and published Tuesday on an online news site.
A senior Defense Ministry official later told Kyodo News that those details in the article published in Japanese on the Japan Business Press website are essentially true. Neither the article nor the Defense Ministry official said when the incident occurred.
The article written under the byline Kunio Orita, the former head of the ASDF Air Support Command, said, “Chinese aircraft have come to take very provocative actions in conjunction with developments at sea,” referring to recent Chinese naval ships sailing near and even entering Japanese waters.
The article referred to a Chinese frigate sailing just outside Japanese waters in the contiguous zone and near the Japan-controlled, China-claimed Senkaku Islands on June 9.
It also mentioned another Chinese naval ship entering on June 15 Japanese territorial waters near Kuchinoerabu Island south of Kyushu.
The article said a Chinese fighter “took a motion to attack” an ASDF plane that had been scrambled. It said the Japanese plane then left the area after the pilot decided it could be involved in “a dogfight which could develop into an unexpected contingency.”
The article also said the Japanese aircraft “utilized a device for self defense” to divert a possible missile attack. It is believed that the device was a flare deployed to draw away any infrared-guided missile.
“Chinese planes used to maintain a certain distance from ASDF planes and engage in relatively inhibited behavior” in close encounters before, the article said. “This time, the situation changed completely,” it added.
Orita, who used to be an ASDF fighter jet pilot, said it is possible such an encounter could develop into an air collision or missile-firing.
“The government should take the incident seriously and call on China to refrain from taking such action,” he wrote.
Orita joined the Air Self-Defense Force after graduating from the National Defense Academy in 1974. He became the Commander of Air Support Command in 2006 and retired in 2009.