East China Sea - Aircraft Carrier Liaoning

Latest UPDATE: November 29





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UPDATE for November 29:

中国空军识别查证进入东海防空识别区的外国军机

Headline:
China's air force spotted and verified foreign military planes entering the East [China] Sea air-defence identification zone.

中新社北京11月29日电：中国空军新闻发言人申进科空军上校29日在北京表示，当天，中国空军识别查证了进入中国东海防空识别区的外国军机，实现了对防空识别区内空中目标的常态化有效监控。

According to a XinHua report from Beijing on November 29, the news spokesman for China's air force in Beijing, air force colonel Shen JinKe, indicated that, on the same day, China's air force spotted and verified foreign military planes entering the East [China] Sea air-defence identification zone; such realizing [its] goal of normalizing an efficient supervision and control in the air-defence identification zone's air space.

据申进科介绍，29日上午，中国空军组织苏-30、歼-11等主战飞机紧急起飞，查证美国P-3、EP-3侦察机2批2架，识别进入中国东海防空识别区的日本E-767、P-3、F-15等3型飞机7批10架。

According to Shen JinKe's presentation, [Suchoi] Su-30 and [Shenyang] J-11 main combat planes of China's air force [organization] took off immediately on [November] 29 in the morning to investigate and verify two groups of U.S. P-3 and EP-3 surveillance planes, comprising two planes each. Seven groups of Japanese E-767, P-3 and F-15 planes, comprising ten planes each, were spotted [as well] while entering China's Eastern Sea air-defence identification zone.

[Source: China News Network 中国新闻网 on November 29, 2013]


China Air Force: Planes deployed for observation and control
in the East China Sea Air-Defence Identification Zone.

Colonel Yang YuJun, another news spokesman said in a press conference for China's ministry of defence that aircraft carrier "Liaoning" had moved to the South China Sea to engage in manoeuvres which would last a certain time. Furthermore, he said, the seaport of Sanya (in Hainan province) should already have undergone certain preparations as an anchorage for the aircraft carrier.
The ministry's official evaluation of China's actual military situation has been quoted by QIANYAN ("Forward Position" 军事前沿), a military news service.


Colonel Yang YuJun, spokesman for China's ministry of defence.