On Nov. 30, Chinese and Russian military planes, both bombers and fighters, conducted training missions over the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the Western Pacific. This is the first mission in which Chinese planes have landed at Russian air bases and Russian planes landed at Chinese bases. Landing in each other’s airfields is also an exercise that could get the pilots and ground maintenance staff familiar with each other’s airfields and warplanes, a Chinese expert told Global Times.
In the flight that lasted about eight hours, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force sent H-6K strategic bombers, and the Russian Aerospace Forces sent Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers, escorted by Russian Su-30 SM and Su-35S fighter jets, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Nov. 30.
