Air Force units explore new airspace

The People's Liberation Army Air Force recently sent its electronic intelligence aircraft to conduct long-range training over the Yellow and East China seas, according to Senior Colonel Shen Jinke, spokesman for the PLA Air Force, on Monday.

Shen said at an unidentified air base in northern China that during the exercise the electronic intelligence aircraft used a route that they had not flown before and reached areas they had never been to, according to a news release published by the Air Force on its Sina Weibo account.

In addition to the reconnaissance planes, the Air Force also dispatched fighter jets, early-warning aircraft and air-defense missile units to take part in the operation, he was quoted by the release as saying. No other details were given.