The German government caused Dan Honbo on Tuesday after the laser installed on the Chinese military boat aimed at a German aircraft, which participated in the desire of the European Union to guarantee the safety of navigation in the Red Sea.
The plane made a “ordinary operational flight on the Red Sea” when it was “indicated by a laser for no reason or preliminary contact of the Chinese warship, which was already found in the area,” said the representative of the German Ministry of Defense in an email sent by e -mail. After the incident, as a precaution, the flight was suspended, and the plane returned without incidents or wounded to the base in Djibuti, concluded.
The incident made Yemen on the coast, when the flight, to recognize the German language, approached the Chinese frigate, and, interrupted with ordinary practice, Chinese staff, presumably, did not make contact in frequency of assistance, the German newspaper reports Der SpiegelField
Newspaper Bild He confirms, based on information from security circles that this is not the first attack of this type of China, whose army has already used lasers against Western aircraft to blind pilots and create intervention in electronics of devices. These “blind lasers” are not used to detect targets to then shoot a rocket, but only in order to break the aircraft.
In 2018, the Pentagon already accused Chinese staff in order to aiming American drivers who worked with the strategic base of Djibuti, whose proximity to China also opened in 2017 by its first military base outside its borders.
The attack was carried out in the midst of growing tension in the area after the first attack from June, which began on Tuesday Khutin against the flag ship of Liberia, which left two dead.
The beginning of attacks on Israel and navigation in the Red Sea for the militia of the Yemeni police in response to the war in Gaza led to the fact that the European Union began an aspect operation in February 2024, in which Germany was involved with the maximum contingent of up to 700 people.
