Taipei, Taiwan: China flew 39 fighter aircraft towards Taiwan above the largest new year type, continuing the pattern that the island answered by fighting over its own jets in response.
Sunday night formation includes 24 J-16 fighter jets and 10 J-10 Jets, including supporting aircraft and electronic war aircraft, according to the Taiwan defense ministry.
The Taiwan Air Force disrupted his own jet and tracked the plane of the People’s Liberation forces on the air defense radar system, the Defense Ministry said.
The Chinese pilot has flown towards Taiwan in the past half a year, because the Taiwanese government began to publish data regularly.
The biggest sortie is 56 fighter planes in one day last October.
These activities are generally in the southwestern airspace of Taiwan and fall where the Taiwanese military calls the air defense identification zone, or the air space monitors from national security considerations.
Taiwan and China separated during the civil war in 1949, but China claimed the island as its own territory.
As a result, Beijing opposed whatever actions would identify Taiwan as a sovereign country and had used diplomatic and military ways to isolate and intimidate Taiwan.
Tensions have been high since Taiwanese residents chose Tsai Ing-Wen as president in 2016, where Beijing responded by deciding communication previously established with the island government.
The predecessor of TSAI is friendly to China and has supported Beijing’s claims that both are part of a Chinese country.