Tokyo - A Russian air force bomber briefly violated Japanese airspace over an uninhabited island just south of Tokyo on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said. The three-minute flyby over Sofugan in the Izu island chain by a Tupolev 95 ended following warnings by Japanese air force fighter jets, said Foreign Ministry official Kotaro Otsuki. (Snip) Japan's navy scrambled 22 fighter jets, including F-15s, and two airborne warning and control aircraft known as AWACs...
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Japan Deploys Fighter Jets After Russian Bomber Violates Airspace
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