According to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force spokesman, Chinese bombers and reconnaissance aircraft have been conducting several “island cruises” (croisière 岛 巡航) operations in recent days. Although the name of Taiwan was not clearly stated in the associated statement, but the maneuvers of the Chinese army near the island of 23 million people located on the first chain of islands are already confirmed by the Japanese and Taiwanese armed forces on 18 and 19 April.
The first recorded activity of the Chinese Air Force is to send a long-range BZK-005 reconnaissance drone patrolling the East China Sea on Wednesday, April 18th, before turning around. in front of the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands and the Miyako Strait, one of the two main Pacific Ocean outlets for China. Japanese hunters were able to get close enough to the Chinese device to identify and photograph it.
Note that the drone signal jammer in question should have taken off from Daishan Island, located near the city of Shanghai, where is based an air reconnaissance regiment of the Chinese Navy. Developed by the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Beijing (BUAA) and HAIG in the early 2000s’, the BZK-005 has a 40-hour comfortable flying range and allows missions to be carried out monitoring and recognition thanks to its embedded optical sensors.
Chinese drone BZK-005 patrolled the East China Sea on April 18
The sending of the reconnaissance drone of the navy is followed in the same day by the crossing of the Miyako Strait of two H-6K bombers of the Chinese Air Force. Each with two KD-20 cruise missiles in a training version (?), The Chinese aircraft continued southward along the east coast of Taiwan before returning to the mainland and the base via the Strait of Taiwan. Bashi located south of the island.
The Pacific exit of the two Chinese bombers was confirmed by the Japanese armed forces in a statement issued shortly thereafter, and their way back by Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense in the wake.