South Korea fires hundreds of warning shots at Russian military plane

[PattayaPhil]

49 minutes ago, BestB said:

that is only part of my post, Korea fired warning shots but Korea also said 2 jets never entered its airspace, so what and why were they shooting?

The incident took place over some disputed rocks in the Sea of Japan:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks_dispute

 

Perhaps the purpose was just to ignite a little agitation between Japan and South Korea by seeing if the Koreans would "defend" territory Japan claims is theirs and being illegally occupied by the Koreans. Japanese did in fact get pissed at the South Koreans, so if that was the intent it worked.

[BestB]

3 minutes ago, PattayaPhil said:

The incident took place over some disputed rocks in the Sea of Japan:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liancourt_Rocks_dispute

 

Perhaps the purpose was just to ignite a little agitation between Japan and South Korea by seeing if the Koreans would "defend" territory Japan claims is theirs and being illegally occupied by the Koreans. Japanese did in fact get pissed at the South Koreans, so if that was the intent it worked.

Makes sense but does not, because reading the OP it says 2 russian jets and 2 chinese jets entered Korean airspace, it later reads Korean Defence Ministry claiming Russian jets never entered Korean airspace.

 

So why would Russia and China test it for Japan? and again, if Jets did not enter Korean Airspace and Russian jets did not act in aggressive manner(words from OP not me) why fire warning shots?

[Morch]

10 hours ago, BestB said:

that is only part of my post, Korea fired warning shots but Korea also said 2 jets never entered its airspace, so what and why were they shooting?

 

There are several South Korean versions as to whether the aircraft were violating airspace. I think that's not unusual with such incidents. Unless an aircraft is definitely where it shouldn't be, then skirting the line can lead to exact location being a less conclusive matter -  both by aircraft course changes and means used to detect/monitor its location. 

[overherebc]

22 hours ago, nahkit said:

The SK fighters use the M61A1 cannon which can fire 6,000 rounds per minute, so that's 100 rounds per second. Two planes fired rounds so that works out at a less than a 2 second burst each.

Serious question.

Do they still use tracer rounds, eg one every 20 or so??