China Denies Locking onto Japanese Vessel

Lately China and Japan have been feuding over islands, that Japan currently owns. Both ships have high tech weaponry and radar guidance and detection. A Chinese vessel supposedly locked onto a Japanese warship with its radar missile guidance system. The Chinese defense ministry says that the vessel's radar systems were running normally as they should be and not locking onto any other ships. He also said the same thing for a helicopter that the Chinese vessel had apparently also locked onto. These have brought up tensions which have led to the scrambling of jets and maritime standoff in the recent months. The U.S. doesn't want to pick sides in this dispute, and they want to leave it alone. Tensions have been rising over this island dispute, even though Japan has rights over the islands. Hopefully the tension declines and no ships are fired upon.

U.S. Pilot Found Dead

On Monday Captain Lucas Gruenther went missing in his F-16 on a training flight. Nobody knew what had happened, until Thursday. His body was found off the coast of Italy in the Adriatic Sea. His aircraft was stationed at the Aviano Air Base in Italy, it is a key NATO installation base. Nobody knows how his plane had gone down or what had actually happened. Italy has search teams that are still looking and finding debris from his F-16. Lucas' family loved him very much and all their prayers are with him.