A Taiwanese fighter jet pilot mistakenly fired a self-defence weapon during a recent encounter with a PLA warplane, according to a local newspaper.
It was not known when or where the incident took place, but an unidentified source familiar with the matter told“The firing of an infrared decoy projectile is a defensive act, so it did not lead to an exchange of fire,” the source was quoted as saying.In a separate incident, another Taiwanese pilot accidentally fired an infrared decoy projectile when monitoring a United States P-3C surveillance plane near the island, the source told the newspaper, without elaborating.
Collin Koh, a military expert from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, said increasing military pressure from Beijing could lead to more weapons being mistakenly fired. “If the PLA continues its so-called island patrols around Taiwan we can expect the Taiwanese military to keep up their responses – and over time the accumulated tensions may spiral into a mishap.”
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