Chinese fighter aircraft locked fire-control radar on Japanese military jets for the first time on Saturday, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry, an incident that is likely to further stoke simmering tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
At a press briefing in the early hours of Sunday in Tokyo, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi gave details of two episodes of a Chinese J-15 intermittently locking its radar on Japanese F-15 fighter planes over international waters southeast of Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture.