Chinese Fighter Jets intercept U.S. Spy Plane

According to reports, Taiwan scrambled jets to intercept the Chinese fighters.

Read more: [link to www.benzinga.com]

Why are we still using U2s anyway? That thing is from the 1950s..

no shit wtf is that about......



AND SO IT BEGINS...

The incident took place in late June when two SU-27 fighter planes of China's People's Liberation Army tried to drive away a US U2 reconnaissance aircraft, the News said.

The US plane was reportedly flying along the Taiwan Strait to collect information about the Chinese mainland.

One of the Chinese fighters crossed the middle of the Taiwan Strait, widely considered to be the boundary between Taiwan's airspace and that of the mainland, the News said.

"The intruder did not turn back until two F-16 fighters of (the) Taiwan Air Force scrambled to intercept it," it said, citing an unnamed military source.

[link to www.google.com]

no shit.

do they still use the SR71 too?

hmmm, maybe they wanted the U2 to be shot down?

I thought U2s flew much higher than fighters are capable of flying when on a spy run?

It is reported that secret agent Bono was fling the U2 and was getting information on a area of China were the streets have no names.

Fixed, in the name of love.

didn't this smae thing happen in year 2000 right after W came to office

Su-27 Service ceiling: 18,500 m (62,523 ft)

Lockheed U-2 Service ceiling: 70,000+ ft

A U-2 is stationed in Cyprus in March 2011 to help in the enforcement of the no-fly zone over Libya,[30] and a U-2 stationed at Osan Air Base in South Korea was used to provide imagery of the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.[31]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Could this lead to Wa War she's a refugee?