China Issues 8 Warnings to US Surveillance Plane in South China Sea ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Ankit Panda)
P8A Poseidon ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- United States Navy) Source- The Diplomat Author- Ankit Panda Foreign military aircraft. This is Chinese navy. You are approaching our military alert zone. Leave immediately. These are the words heard over a crackling radio in a new video posted by CNN this morning, one of at least eight warnings sent to a U.S. P8-A Poseidon surveillance aircraft by the Chinese navy. According to the report, the People’s Liberation Army-Navy’s warnings came as the P8-A flew over disputed islands in the South China Sea — specifically, over China’s man-made islands. The report notes that the source of these transmissions was a facility on “an island made by China some 600 miles from its coastline.” The report does not definitively specify which reclaimed reef hosted the facility, but it is implied in comments from the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) P8 fleet that the warning came from an early warning radar facility