By YOSHITAKA ITO/ Staff Writer
September 22, 2020 at 16:33 JST
A Chinese Y-8 electronic surveillance aircraft flies over the East China Sea. (Provided by the Defense Ministry)
The Defense Ministry aims to eventually deploy a Self-Defense Forces unit specializing in electronic warfare to counter increasingly aggressive intelligence-gathering activities by Chinese military vessels and aircraft in waters near the Nansei island chain south of Okinawa Prefecture. [Read More]
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