Two US bombers fly over China air defense zone
Iran Press TV
Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:52PM
Two American B-52 bombers have entered the new Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea without informing the Chinese government.
"We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies,' Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Steve Warren said on Tuesday.
US officials said the bombers took off from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and the flight was part of a long-planned exercise called Coral Lightning.
On Saturday, the Chinese government said that it had established an Air Defense Identification Zone and its military will take "defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not cooperate in identification or refuse to follow instructions."
The flying took place only one day after the Pentagon announced that the United States would continue its flight operations over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
'We will not in any way change how we conduct our operations as a result of the Chinese policy of establishing an ADIZ, an Air Defense Identification Zone,' Col. Warren said.
Beijing had warned that aircraft that do not comply could be subject to a military response.
An unnamed US official said the planes returned safely to Guam after the exercise.
'The planes flew a pattern that included passing through the ADIZ,' the official was quoted as saying by The Wall Street Journal. 'The flight was without incident.'
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