Mon February, 2021, Age: 3 years
During a reported incursion of Taiwan’s airspace last week, Chinese military aircraft simulated anti-ship missile attacks on a U.S. carrier group that was in the area. The Chinese fighter jets and bombers never came within 250 nautical miles of the U.S. carrier group yet pilots of the Chinese bombers were “heard in cockpit conversations confirming orders for the simulated targeting and release of anti-ship missiles against the carrier.” Captain Mike Kafka, a spokesman for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said, “these actions reflect a continued PLA attempt to use its military as a tool to intimidate or coerce those operating in international waters and airspace, to include their neighbors and those with competing territorial claims.”
