３日連続で中国無人機飛行　沖縄本島―宮古島通過も―防衛省

　中国軍の無人機などが２４日から３日連続で東シナ海や沖縄県の沖縄本島と宮古島間を飛行したことが２６日、防衛省への取材で分かった。航空自衛隊の戦闘機が緊急発進（スクランブル）したが、領空侵犯はなかった。同省は中国側の意図を分析している。
　同省統合幕僚監部によると、２４日に中国軍の偵察・攻撃型無人機「ＴＢ００１」とみられる機体が東シナ海を飛行。２６日にも同型機が、中国軍のＹ９情報収集機などと東シナ海から沖縄本島と宮古島間を通って太平洋に出た後、旋回して東シナ海に戻った。
　２５日は別の機種の無人機が、哨戒機などと飛行した。（2021/08/26-22:49）

Chinese military aircraft including an unmanned plane flew above the East China Sea and waters between two islands in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, for three days in a row from Tuesday, sources at the Japanese Defense Ministry have said.
   Japanese Air Self-Defense Force jets were scrambled, but there were no violations of the Japanese airspace, the sources said Thursday. The ministry is analyzing the Chinese military's intention.
   A plane that appeared to be the Chinese military's TB001 armed surveillance drone flew over the East China Sea on Tuesday, according to the ministry's Joint Staff Office.
   On Thursday, a plane of the same type and the Y-9 information-gathering aircraft of the Chinese military flew above the East China Sea and passed over the waters between Okinawa's main island and the Okinawa island of Miyakojima to reach the Pacific Ocean.
   The planes then made a U-turn and returned to the East China Sea.