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Why did they wait till November this year?
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How about last year? the year before last? and so on?
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You are right. Looks like they’ve always been held near the end of the year. I guess it is sort of like a final exam.
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From Hua Chunying 华春莹 @SpokespersonCHN on 2020.11.29:
According to the #SouthChinaSea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, the #US military sent 3 reconnaissance aircraft to the South China Sea on a surveillance mission on Nov. 28. One of them used a fake transponder code.
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List of airliner shootdown incidents (notable cases)
In the history of commercial aviation, there have been many airliner shootdown incidents which have been caused intentionally or by accident. These are the select cases meant to document instances where airliners have been brought down by gunfire or missile attacks.
Some notable commercial airliner shootdown with big death casualties in the last several decades:
• 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (Boeing 747), shot down by a Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island, death casualties: 269 passengers and crew, including US congressman Larry McDonald.
• 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 (Airbus A300B2-203), flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai, UAE, shot down by a missile fired from a U.S. warship, death casualties: 290 passengers and crew.
• 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777-200ER), from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, shot down in the airspace over Ukraine, death casualties: all 283 passengers and 15 crew.
• 2020: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (Boeing 737-8KV), from Tehran to Kiev, shot down in Tehran air space by Iranian air defense during the 2019–2020 Persian Gulf crisis, five days after the assassination of the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by USA, death casualties: all 176 passengers and crew.
For the more complete list, see:
en.wikipedia.org
And it seems that Malaysian Airlines is again the preferred pick of the US military for the impersonated cases seeing from the past Chinese complaints within 2020!
According to the #SouthChinaSea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, the #US military sent 3 reconnaissance aircraft to the South China Sea on a surveillance mission on Nov. 28. One of them used a fake transponder code.
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List of airliner shootdown incidents (notable cases)
In the history of commercial aviation, there have been many airliner shootdown incidents which have been caused intentionally or by accident. These are the select cases meant to document instances where airliners have been brought down by gunfire or missile attacks.
Some notable commercial airliner shootdown with big death casualties in the last several decades:
• 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (Boeing 747), shot down by a Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island, death casualties: 269 passengers and crew, including US congressman Larry McDonald.
• 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 (Airbus A300B2-203), flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai, UAE, shot down by a missile fired from a U.S. warship, death casualties: 290 passengers and crew.
• 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777-200ER), from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, shot down in the airspace over Ukraine, death casualties: all 283 passengers and 15 crew.
• 2020: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (Boeing 737-8KV), from Tehran to Kiev, shot down in Tehran air space by Iranian air defense during the 2019–2020 Persian Gulf crisis, five days after the assassination of the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by USA, death casualties: all 176 passengers and crew.
For the more complete list, see:
List of airliner shootdown incidents - Wikipedia
And it seems that Malaysian Airlines is again the preferred pick of the US military for the impersonated cases seeing from the past Chinese complaints within 2020!
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Very Good footage
contains historical segment too in this micro clip by the Nat'l Def.Watching this footage, among other things, it comes to my thoughts that those past things like the Chongqing flattening, Yalu bombing, etc will never, never be allowed again in the China's journeys onwards!
Cool song as well!
《顶天立地真英雄》「国防微视频-军歌嘹亮」20201111 | 军迷天下
顶天立地真英雄
作词：轩文
作曲：王超
演唱：支予
支予 - 顶天立地真英雄(庆祝人民空军成立71周年空军歌曲)_MV频道_酷狗网
支予 - 顶天立地真英雄(庆祝人民空军成立71周年空军歌曲)_MV频道_酷狗网
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Via by78 /SDF:
Various China's aerial and space assets in one chart
Graphic by Peter Wood | Objects not to scale | All altitudes are based on public estimates
As commented by Bltizo there:
Various China's aerial and space assets in one chart
Graphic by Peter Wood | Objects not to scale | All altitudes are based on public estimates
As commented by Bltizo there:
- the fuselages of KJ-200 and KJ-500 should be of the same size as both being the same Y-8 cat III / Y-9 airframe.
- Yilong is better called as "Wing Loong I" for consistency with Wing Loong II - -- or better again just called GJ-1 and GJ-2 respectively
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