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Japan ready to purchase early-warning aircraft and drones to face China

Tokyo, Japan - Tokyo is also thinking to Ospreys to improve the troops' mobility

The Japanese government is ready topurchase early-warning aircraft and recoinassance drones in order to increase surveillance over the East China Sea islands which are at the centre of a sovereignity dispute with Beijing which in the past weeks was characterized by a significant increase of the tension between the two Asian giants. Controversies between the two countries are relative to the islands...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1157060
Rome, Italy, 12/11/2013 16:10
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