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South China Morning Post on 2021-07-11 00:00

Why has China’s PLA started sending ‘grandpa fighter jets’ to test Taiwan’s air defences?

Last month an ‘island encirclement exercise’ featured four J-7s, a model that dates back to the 1960s and can be turned into unmanned aerial vehicles.

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