In a rare event, Japan's F-15 and F-35 fighter jets opened fire at a Russian IL-38 patrol aircraft violating Japanese ...

Japanese military planes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that trespassed and entered Japan’s airspace ...

Moscow's actions is the first airspace incursion into Japan by a Russian plane since 2019, when a Tu-95 bomber flew over ...

Japan scrambled an undisclosed number of F-15 and F-35 fighter jets, which used flares for the first time after the Russian ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to 'resolutely defend Japan's territory' as Tokyo lodged a protest with Moscow after a ...

In a first, fighter jets in Japan fired flares at a Russian reconnaissance aircraft as a warning after it allegedly breached ...

Japanese fighter jets fired warning flares at a Russian reconnaissance plane after it repeatedly breached the neighbouring ...

TOKYO: Japan lodged a "very serious protest" with Moscow after a Russian patrol plane entered its airspace three times, the ...

Japan scrambled fighter jets to warn off the aircraft through radio messages and fired flares during the final encroachment.

After a Russian military patrol aircraft violated Japanese airspace, Japan's Self-Defense Force dispatched an aircraft that, for the first time, fired flares in 'an anti-airspace violation action.' ...

Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday.

On Monday, Japan’s air force scrambled F-15 and F-35 jet fighters in response to the first airspace violation, and the jets ...