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Russian Tu-160 Blackjacks Penetrate Canadian Airspace

Posted 4-23-2006 at 12:25 AM

Okay this is like an act of war. The Russians aren't playing very nicely.

Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers managed to penetrate a radar zone near the Canadian coast during recent exercises, said Igor Khvorov, the commander of the Russian 37th air force army (strategic aviation).

"Our command-post exercises were planned, but they caused a kind of commotion in a number of countries. In particular, our planes managed to pass through a radar zone near Canadian coasts unnoticed," Khvorov said at a press conference in Moscow on Saturday.

The exercises reverberated in the Middle East, Khvorov said. "Of course, our exercises did not have anything to do with the situation in Iran, but their organization indirectly echoed in that region," he said.

The exercises involved 53 sorties and four guided missile launches, and the planes dropped about 200 heavy bombs, he said.

Source:

Interfax.ru