© Toru Hanai/Reuters Japan Self-Defense Force’s (JSDF) F-15 fighter flies during the JSDF Air Review to celebrate 60 years since the service’s founding, at Hyakuri air base in Omitama, northeast of Tokyo, October 26, 2014. Japan‘s air force said on Wednesday said jet fighter scrambles have reached a level not seen since the height of the Cold War three decades ago as Russian bombers probe its northern skies and Chinese combat aircraft intrude into its southern air space. In the year ending March 31, Japanese fighters scrambled 944 times, 16 percent more than the same period the previous year, the country’s Self Defence Force said.
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