Image caption Japan says China locked radar on its ship - something PM Abe called "dangerous" China's Defence Ministry has denied Japanese allegations that its navy ships twice put a radar lock on Japanese military vessels last month.
But they said it appeared that an SA-5 missile had simply missed its drone and continued flying, locking its radar onto the next large radar target it detected, the Siberian airliner.
In a separate incident, Turkey's military said an MIG-29 jet had harassed two Turkish F-16s for five minutes and 40 seconds on Sunday by locking its radar on them while they were patrolling the Turkish-Syrian border.
Separately, the armed forces said a Mig fighter plane had harassed a Turkish squadron of F-16s patrolling the border with Syria, locking its radar on the Turkish warplanes.
The excuse, and the assurance, was met with scepticism in Western capitals as Turkey, a Nato member, said that a similar incident had taken place on Sunday when a Mig-29 had engaged two Turkish F-16s for more than five minutes, including locking its radar on to one of them.
The Toronto locked its radar on the Russian plane but took no further action as the Russian plane was not armed.
But as he flew from Marmaris on a business jet, two F-16 fighter jets locked their radar targeting system on the president's plane, according to an account first reported by Reuters and later confirmed to the Guardian.
The guarded optimism that had greeted Iraq's Inauguration Day cease-fire ended abruptly this morning as American warplanes attacked an Iraqi missile site that had locked its radar on an allied patrol over the northern no-flight zone.
On March 24, a Patriot battery locked its radar on a U.S. Air Force F-16 Falcon in preparation for firing a missile.
Stoltenberg declined to comment on whether the Russian planes had locked their radar on the F-16 Turkish jets scrambled on Saturday to remove Russian aircraft from the airspace, usually a prelude to firing.
