The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

The territorial violation by China is the latest in a series of events amplifying tensions between Beijing and Japan.

A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.

According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.

While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.

  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me.

    You don’t need to hit the bullet with a bullet. You just hit it with a shotgun blast or grenade, either destroying it outright or blowing it off course enough that it loses its energy and becomes ineffective. We literally do this all the time on tanks and humvees. It’s called a hardkill APS. The Russians had one working in the 70s. Modern ones are capable of detecting incoming tank rounds moving between 700-1700m/s, identifying which will hit the vehicle, and blowing them out of the air once they reach 10-15 meters away. All in a span of nanoseconds. It’s standard equipment on Israel’s MBT, and Germany, the US, and the UK have all field tested various systems and are considering making hardkill systems standard for the next generation of tanks and IFVs. Multiple companies across multiple countries make them for upgrade kits. Germany already produces vehicles with standard hardkill APS for their export market.

    This isn’t crazy sci-fi technology. It’s just rocket science.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      You don’t need to hit the bullet with a bullet. You just hit it with a shotgun blast or grenade

      Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me.

      :-|

      This isn’t crazy sci-fi technology. It’s just rocket science.

      Incredible.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        That’s…literally how hardkill APS works. CIWS takes the same approach but uses a rotary cannon instead. The issue ain’t putting a missile in the path of the other missile. It’s in having enough time to do so. This is why the US concluded that the most effective way to intercept an ICBM is to destroy it before it finishes its acceleration stages. Ballistics is a known quantity.

        Still aren’t convincing that you know what the hell you’re talking about.