Satellite images show Chinese fighter jets deployed to base in Tibet

May 24, 2013 David Cenciotti China, Military Aviation 3

The following Google Earth screenshots were taken by The Aviationist reader Nicolae Sinu.

They show the airfield in Tibet where five Chinese J-11 fighter jets (indigenous Su-27 Flankers) appear to be based.

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The base is a part of Chinese strategy of widening China’s power in the Indian region and it is considered to be a response to the Indian air bases of Chabua and Tezpur in Assam region.

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Image credit: Google Earth

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