Shame on the Japanese militarists!

By Topwar

This thread is about a month old, but it’s amusing. In early December 2025, an incident occurred in the Miyako Strait, south of Okinawa. On December 6, 2025, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (tactical number 16) and its escort were sailing through international waters through the strait on a southeasterly course, or a heading of 140° to be precise, and conducting exercises with carrier-based J-15 fighter jets. That day, the Chinese carrier carried out over 100 sorties of fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft. A Japanese F-15J from Okinawa, part of the 9th Air Wing, was also in the air, monitoring the exercises.

Between 16:32 and 16:35 PM local time on December 6, a Chinese J-15 acquired a radar lock on a Japanese F-15J. A second lock on another Japanese fighter occurred between 18:37 and 19:08 PM local time that same day.

Reconnaissance of the beginning of an air battle

I don’t think I need to explain what it means to lock onto an enemy aircraft with radar. It was done, presumably, to test how Japanese pilots reacted to being targeted.

Every air battle these days begins with a radar lock, to which the pilot of the aircraft in the target’s sights must react. When the nasty radar lock warning beeps in his helmet, he has several possible courses of action.

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