{"id":4051,"date":"2025-12-12T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:21:04","slug":"u-s-bombers-fly-with-japanese-jets-after-china-russia-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bombers Fly with Japanese Jets After China-Russia Drills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>USAF B-52 bombers joined Japan\u2019s F-35s and F-15s over the Sea of Japan, signaling allied resolve amid rising regional tensions.<\/strong><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-4052\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-12-12-US-Bombers-Fly-with-Japanese-Jets-After-China-Russia-Drills.jpg\" alt=\"2025 12 12 Boeing November Deliveries Drop 17%, Lagging Behind Airbus\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-12-12-US-Bombers-Fly-with-Japanese-Jets-After-China-Russia-Drills.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-12-12-US-Bombers-Fly-with-Japanese-Jets-After-China-Russia-Drills-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-12-12-US-Bombers-Fly-with-Japanese-Jets-After-China-Russia-Drills-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 bombers conducted joint flights with Japanese F-35 and F-15 fighter jets over the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo announced, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian military drills near Japan and South Korea.<br><br>The exercise came just a day after Chinese and Russian bombers carried out coordinated flights in the region, prompting both Japan and South Korea to scramble fighter jets. Taiwan also reported a second consecutive day of heightened Chinese military air activity.<br><br>Japan\u2019s defense ministry said the operation underscored the allies\u2019 determination to counter\u00a0<em>\u201cany unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and confirmed the readiness of both the Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces.<br><br>China dismissed Japan\u2019s concerns, accusing Tokyo of exaggerating the significance of the drills.<br><br>The flights highlight the intensifying military competition in Northeast Asia, where U.S. allies are seeking to demonstrate deterrence against growing Chinese and Russian activity.<br><br><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Tokyo\/Washington by Kaori Kaneko, Tim Kelly and Idrees Ali\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/japan-says-it-held-joint-military-drills-with-us-over-sea-japan-2025-12-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Reuters\u00a0<\/a>&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u00a9XAirForces News<\/a>, 12 December 2025<br><br><strong>Photo:\u00a0<\/strong>The 6th Air Wing of Japan Air Self-Defense Force&#8217;s F-15 fighters hold a joint military drill with the U.S. B-52 bombers over Sea of Japan, in this handout picture taken by Japan Air Self-Defence Force and on December 10, 2025, and released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan on December 11, 2025. (Photo by \u00a9Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan\/Handout via REUTERS)<br><br><strong>Editor:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Naomi A.J. Takahashi\u00a0<\/a>(Oceanian \u00a9XAirForces News Editor from Japan)<br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xairforces.net\/newsd.asp?newsid=3273&amp;newst=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">U.S. Bombers Fly with Japanese Jets After China-Russia Drills<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAF B-52 bombers joined Japan\u2019s F-35s and F-15s over the Sea of Japan, signaling allied resolve amid rising regional tensions. U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 bombers conducted joint flights with Japanese F-35 and F-15 fighter jets&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,173,1726,1721,31,178,6,30,16,1673],"tags":[1520,135,4798,380,303,4841,4843,4835,4839,4797,4845,4844,4846,4840,69,4836,4837,4810,731,4842,649,4838,4834,4847,1532],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}