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Weeeeellll, US recon flights are basically continuously skirting the edge of China's airspace. Though there doesn't appear to be evidence of them straight up f
by amatecha 4y ago
Weeeeellll, US recon flights are basically continuously skirting the edge of China's airspace. Though there doesn't appear to be evidence of them straight up flying over Chinese airspace (at least by international definitions), this is also only what we know of publicly. U2s were flying over Soviet and Israeli airspace for something like four of five years until they were publicly revealed by the 1960 shootdown of one (read the history of the plane on the wikipedia page[0]).
2018: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/politics/south-china-sea-flyover-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/politics/south-china-sea-flyo...
2020: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/asia/china-us-u-2-spy-plane-intl-hnk-scli/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/asia/china-us-u-2-spy-plane-i...
2021: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39890/did-an-rc-135-spy-plane-really-make-an-unprecedented-run-at-chinese-airspace-near-taiwan https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39890/did-an-rc-135-sp...
2022: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/air-force-rc-135u-electronic-intelligence-jet-surveils-chinas-strategic-southern-coast https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/air-force-rc-135u-elec...
2022: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/politics/chinese-fighter-jet-intercepts-us-reconnaissance-aircraft/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/politics/chinese-fighter-jet-...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2