Australian military helicopters were targeted with lasers during operations in the South China Sea this month, a source says
"Some helicopter pilots had lasers pointed at them from passing fishing vessels, temporarily grounding them for precautionary medical reasons," Euan Graham of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute wrote on The Strategist blog.Graham told CNN he did not witness the incidents, but Australian pilots told him they were targeted multiple times by commercial lasers during South China Sea missions.
US Navy ship, Chinese destroyer nearly collide 02:16Military militia?China has claimed almost the entire 1.3 million square mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. In recent years it has aggressively asserted its stake in the face of conflicting claims from several Southeast Asian nations.As part of that, Beijing operates a maritime militia in this region, a force of fishing vessels essentially deputized to the Chinese navy.
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