South Korea fires warning shots at intruding aircraft

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by edpop » 23 Jul 2019, 06:17

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by knowan » 23 Jul 2019, 10:14

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as ... story.html

South Korean air force jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane briefly violated South Korea’s airspace twice on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.

Three Russian military planes — two Tu-95 bombers and one A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft — initially entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone off its east coast before the A-50 intruded in South Korean airspace, the South’s Defense Ministry said.

South Korean fighter jets then scrambled to the area, including F-16s, and fired 10 flares and 80 rounds from machine guns as warning shots, a ministry official said, requesting anonymity due to department rules.

The Russian reconnaissance aircraft left the area three minutes later, but it returned and violated the South Korean airspace again for four additional minutes later Tuesday, the ministry official said. He said the South Korean fighter jets fired 10 flares and 280 rounds from machine guns as warning shots again.


I'm surprised they didn't shoot the A-50 down after it violated South Korean airspace a second time after being warned away by the first set of warning shots.



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