Piccie: this Chinese AWACS caused today's Japanese scramble.

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http://mctvwayne.hometownohio.com/reute ... RAMBLE.JPG

A Chinese military plane Y-8 airborne early warning plane flies through airspace between Okinawa prefecture's main island and the smaller Miyako island in southern Japan, out over the Pacific, in this handout photo taken July 24, 2013 by Japan Air Self-Defence Force and released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/2 ... GT20130724

TOKYO | Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:09pm BST

(Reuters) - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after a Chinese military aircraft flew for the first time through international airspace near its southern islands out over the Pacific, in a move seen by Japan as underlining China's maritime expansion.

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Ah, the Y8J in the AEW&C role.
The only succesfull fixed wing application of the British Searchwater radar system after the Nimrod MR2.