緊急発進９４７回　２０１９年度、中ロ活発―防衛省

　防衛省は９日、領空侵犯の恐れのある航空機に対する自衛隊の緊急発進（スクランブル）が、２０１９年度に９４７回あったと発表した。前年度比で５２回減ったものの、過去３番目に多かった。中国やロシアの活発な動きが続いており、同省は警戒を強めている。
　同省によると、スクランブル対象の約７１％が中国機で、前年度比３７回増の６７５回だった。ロシア機への対応は７５回減の２６８回だったが、１９年６月にはロシア機として約４年ぶりの領空侵犯があった。
　同７月には中国、ロシア両国の爆撃機が東シナ海と日本海で初の共同飛行を実施。ロシアのＡ５０早期警戒管制機１機が島根県の竹島付近で領空侵犯した。（2020/04/09-17:01）

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force scrambled its fighter planes 947 times in fiscal 2019 to intercept aircraft suspected of intruding into the country's airspace, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
   The number for the year that ended last month dropped by 52 from the previous year, but it is the third highest on record.
   The ministry is on high alert for frequent aircraft activity near Japanese airspace by China and Russia. It said that 71 pct of the year's scrambles were against Chinese aircraft, totaling 675 times, up 37 from the previous year.
   Scrambles against Russian aircraft decreased 75 to 268 times. However, Russia violated Japanese airspace for the first time in about four years in June last year.
   In the following month, a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft entered Japanese airspace near the Sea of Japan islands of Takeshima, which both Japan and South Korea claim.