Skip to content

U.S. Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon Reconnaissance Aircraft Arrive in Japan

Stars and Stripes reports that “two of the Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft have arrived at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Navy officials in Japan said Monday.”

“The P-8’s long-planned arrival in the western Pacific comes about a week after China unilaterally declared a broad swath of the East China Sea’s air space as its national air defense identification zone and demanded that military aircraft identify themselves and file flight plans with the Chinese government.”

“The United States, Japan and other Asian nations have stated that their military aircraft will not recognize the zone, which includes airspace over the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands.”

Recent Stories

Capitol Lens | Hearing the sad news

McMahon lays out Education Department ‘final mission’ to House appropriators

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018

Virginia Rep. Gerald Connolly dies after cancer returns

Sen. Rand Paul questions border wall funding level needs