Simulation of air attack near border

Indigenous Chinese fighter aircraft roared over the remote Qinghai-Tibet plateau earlier this month, carrying out a ground attack training programme near the border with India.

Indigenous Chinese fighter aircraft roared over the remote Qinghai-Tibet plateau earlier this month, carrying out a ground attack training programme near the border with India.

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It is only for the second time that the state media revealed photographs of the J-10 fighter aircraft operating in a live fire drill.

“The air force of the Chengdu Military Area Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted an around-the-clock live-ammunition bombing drill,” the ministry of defence said.