
J-16 Jets Fire Flares to Repel Foreign Plane
On June 29, the CCTV program “Sharp Sword” aired footage showing two PLA J-16 fighter jets dispatched to warn and expel a foreign aircraft that had breached China’s territorial waters line. The video captures the twin fighters taking off, executing parallel intercept maneuvers, and launching infrared flares (also known as infrared countermeasure flares) to repel…