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Concluded Liaoning patrol after radar incident; expanding long-term carrier and bomber capabilities
What began with Chinese carrier fighters lighting up Japanese jets with radar near Okinawa has mushroomed into a full-spectrum crisis. After China and Russia sent bombers circling Japan, the US flew B-52s with Japanese fighters over the Sea of Japan.
Updated May 11
Conducting carrier and air operations near Okinawa and Taiwan, accused of unsafe radar behavior
On December 6, 2025, two Chinese J-15 carrier fighters from the Liaoning locked fire-control radar on Japanese F-15s over international waters southeast of Okinawa. Japan's defense minister Shinjiro Koizumi called the lock-ons "dangerous" and "extremely regrettable," and Tokyo lodged a formal protest.
Updated May 10
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