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Old 17th Jul 2021, 19:08
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Originally Posted by Lyneham Lad
In The Times today.

America sends stealth fighters to China’s prized territory



Prized territory? Journalistic hyperbole presumably.
Guam is about 2000 miles from China, so well beyond the 'optimistic' 1000 mile combat radius of the F-22.
Are we perhaps setting a marker that China will be allowed to control its airspace to 1000 miles out?
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