SEOUL — More than 200 South Korean and US fighter jets are due to fly around the clock for five days this week in what would mark the largest number of sorties flown in training by the allies, South Korea's air force said on Tuesday (Aug 20). The drills are part of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises that are...
AH-64 Apache helicopters fly during a live-fire drill of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, in Pocheon, South Korea, Aug 14, 2024.SEOUL — More than 200 South Korean and US fighter jets are due to fly around the clock for five days this week in what would mark the largest number of sorties flown in training by the allies, South Korea's air force said on Tuesday .
Aircraft on defencive patrol flights are being diverted to air combat scenarios under simulated drills involving mock enemy aircraft interdiction and cruise missile defence, it said. North Korea routinely denounces the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, which began on Monday and will run through to Aug 29, for stoking tensions on the Korean peninsula, calling them rehearsals for a nuclear war.
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