Updated Sat, October 22nd 2016 at 20:00 GMT +3Misawa,Japan:British fighter planes will take on Japanese aircraft for the first time since World War Two in aerial combat drills following the arrival in Japan on Saturday of four Royal Air Force Typhoon Eurofighters. The joint practice at Japan's northern Misawa Air Base starts on Sunday and will be the first time Japan’s air force train at home with a foreign force other than that of the United States. The Typhoons will face off against and fly with Japanese F-15s and domestically built Mitsubishi F-2s in an exercise dubbed Guardian North 16. Both regularly shadow Russian planes and the JASDF scrambles when Chinese jets approaching its southwestern border. Encounters with Russian bombers and surveillance planes, which fly in from the north rose 67 percent to 180 incidents.

Source: Standard Digital October 22, 2016 12:33 UTC