Japan conveyed on Friday that it crawled fighter jets after two Russian IL-38 data-gathering aircraft were seen to be flying between the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, where Russia is holding a collaborative naval patrol and exercise accompanied by China. Russian and Chinese navy ships have been collaboratively patrolling the Pacific Ocean and exercising naval activities in the Eastern part of China Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
“In the East China Sea, an exercise was enforced to eradicate ships with water and fuel supplies from support vessels,” it said. “A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy and the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) Navy is right now enforcing in the waters of the East China Sea and has sprawled across exceeding than 6,400 nautical miles since the starting of the patrol.” Russia and China also enforced anti-submarine exercises, fought with a simulated enemy air raid, conducted rescue training at sea and executed helicopter take-offs a couple of times and landings on the top decks of warships, the ministry said.