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The Aviationist: A dozen F-22 Raptors have arrived in Japan amid tensions in Northeast Asia over North Korea’s nuclear test
Twelve F-22s belonging to the 525th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, have arrived at Yokota airbase, in western Tokyo, on Jan. 20.
The dozen Raptor stealth fighters will soon be joined by 14 F-16s from the 18th Aggressor Squadron, based at Eielson AFB, Alaska, and will be involved in a previously scheduled joint training in Japan.
Although it’s still not clear whether the aircraft belong to an Air Force Theater Security Package (TSP), their presence in the region will also “promote” stability amid growing tensions in the Asia-Pacific theater following North Korea’s nuclear test on Jan. 6 and the election of a pro-independence president in Taiwan.
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WNU Editor: One can only assume that they have been deployed to Japan to be within range of North Korea.
3 comments:
The US is still in a state of war in Korea after 60 years and wants to keep it that way. No settlement of the armistice, no attempt to unify Korea which is what Koreans want. Korea is the gift that keeps on giving to the Pentagon and its "stability" operations, which include regularly provoking DPRK.
I love conspiracy nuts. They make sense for the first couple of sentences and then their voice goes up an octave and their eye starts to twitch. The longer they get to talk the wilder the story becomes. It is the best fiction there is.
don bacon - entertainment value high, intelligence level low.
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