In Four Days 149 Chinese Fighters, Bombers Flew Across Taiwan's ADIZ

52 PLA aircraft (J-16*34, SU-30*2 Y-8 ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C*2 and H-6*12) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on October 4, 2021. Please check our official website for more information: https://t.co/2mC6UszTMB pic.twitter.com/WOtdFvJx8o

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) October 4, 2021

Breaking Defense: 149 Chinese Fighters, Bombers Sweep Across Taiwan ADIZ In 4 Days  

The Chinese flights are not likely to abate any time soon, Dean Cheng, a top Chinese military expert at the Heritage Foundation, says.  

WASHINGTON: Taiwan’s radar operators, pilots, anti-aircraft specialists, and intelligence experts spent the weekend tracking wave after wave of People’s Liberation Army Air Force assets, as Beijing ramped up the pressure on the island state it regards as a rebellious province. 

“In my view, the air activity in Taiwan’s [southwest] ADIZ has multiple purposes, including intimidating Taiwan, wearing out Taiwan’s Air Force, sending a message to the US, training purposes, domestic PRC messaging, and setting higher new ‘normals’ for PRC air activity — all of which complicate future indications and warning of PRC military action,” said James Mulvenon, a Chinese military expert at SOS International LLC.

In addition to the 52 incursions today and the four at night local time, Beijing sent 38 warplanes to Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone on Friday, followed by 39 on Saturday and 16 on Sunday — for 149 total as of this report. 

The repeated flights of Chinese aircraft were publicized in a series of tweets by the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, as they have routinely done for some time.

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Update: Record number of China planes enter Taiwan air defence zone (BBC)  

WNU Editor: There was only one Chinese incursion today (see below):

One PLA Y-8 ASW entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on October 5, 2021. Please check our official website for more information: https://t.co/BPoAQyD7MP pic.twitter.com/w4NWMlNt6Y

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) October 5, 2021