The Air Force and Naval Aviation of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) Navy deployed more than 100 aircraft on the first day of large-scale exercises near Taiwan. This is stated in a story published on Thursday by the Central Television of China.
According to him, we are talking about bombers and various types of fighters. The published video also shows the moment when one of the PLA fighters replenished fuel from the Y-20 tanker.
The People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) on Thursday began large-scale military exercises with live firing in six waters around Taiwan. They began at 12:00 local time (07:00 Moscow time) and will last until noon on August 7.
As previously reported by the Central News Agency of Taiwan, three of the six areas of the PLA exercises are superimposed on the waters that the island administration considers its territorial waters: one such zone is located to the southwest of the island, and the other two are near its northwest coast.
Information about the PLA's large-scale maneuvers appeared after the plane of the speaker of the lower house of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi landed at Taipei Songshan Airport on Tuesday evening. The exercise program involves live firing, so the Chinese authorities warned about the ban on civil aircraft and naval vessels entering the corresponding six districts. According to experts, the maneuvers will exceed the scale of similar exercises during the crisis in the Taiwan Strait in 1996-1997.
China deployed more than 100 military aircraft on the first day of exercises near Taiwan
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According to him, we are talking about bombers and various types of fighters.