(Taipei/Washington Comprehensive News) In mainland China, it was accused of launching the largest aircraft carrier exercise in the Western Pacific in the Western Pacific. It was reported that nearly 70 military aircraft were dispatched around the Taiwan Strait in 24 hours.
The official website of the Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan reported that on Wednesday (September 13) from 6 am to Thursday (September 14th) at 6 am, 68 military aircraft were found in the Taiwan Strait, of which 40 crossed the middle line and its extension lineEnter the southwest and southeast airspace.
The above numbers are quite close to the highest record this year.After Taiwan Cai Yingwen met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives in California McCarthy in April, the PLA conducted a large -scale Taiwan military exercise.According to the statistics of Agence France -Presse, in Taiwan at the time of 24 hours, 71 secondary mainland fighters were discovered, tied to the highest -day record set in December 2022, and 54 military aircraft across the Taiwan Strait Middle Line reached 54.
Zhongshi News Network said that the mainland Air Force rarely dispatched three oil-20 air-to-20 air tankers to enter the southeast of Taiwan Island with a large number of fighters, showing that it is undergoing large-scale long-range refueling training in large groups.The aircraft carrier Shandong Ship conducts long -voyage cooperation training.
The Ministry of Defense of Japan released on Wednesday (September 13) that a total of six mainland warships such as Shandong ships sailed near Okinawa.The British Financial Times quoted foreign defense officials and analysts one day before that the Chinese Navy launched the largest aircraft carrier exercise in the Western Pacific.