JSDF Photo Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy J-15 fighters came within 50 meters of a Japanese surveillance aircraft in what officials have called an “unusual maneuver,” announced this week.

Chinese jet fighters tailed Japanese patrol aircraft in separate incidents, with the gap narrowing to just 150 feet at one point, officials from Japan said Thursday, disclosing new details about ...

A Chinese J-15 carrier-based fighter flew unusually close to a Japanese P-3C patrol aircraft twice over the weekend, Japan's Ministry of Defense said June 11, 2025. (Japan’s Ministry of Defense) ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier made one of its deepest forays into the Pacific Ocean over the weekend as Beijing continues to project its military power further from its shores.

On June 10, Japanese Defense Minister Nakatani Gen said at a press conference that the Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier of China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), was spotted for the ...

– Third carrier – In September, the Liaoning sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan and entered Japan’s contiguous waters, an area up to 24 nautical miles from its coast.

In a display of Beijing’s growing military reach, the Chinese Navy sent two aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean, far from the country’s coast, for the first time to conduct exercises ...

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning in the Philippine Sea. JSDF Photo The People’s Liberation Army Navy Liaoning Carrier Strike Group is operating southeast of Iwo Jima for the first time in one ...

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, seen here in the Western Pacific on April 18, 2018, was spotted operating in Japan's exclusive economic zone for the first time on June 7, 2025.

More than 40 aircraft were known to have been hit, according to the Security source, including TU-95 and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers and one of Russia’s few remaining A-50 surveillance planes.

Yet that is just what they did. Japanese aircraft launched from six aircraft carriers managed to destroy or damage 328 U.S. aircraft and 19 U.S. Navy ships, including eight battleships.

In the Pacific, the war was slow going, with the Japanese sinking the USS Lexington in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 while only losing the light carrier Shōhō. The tide turned in June at the ...