国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

Russia capable of hitting US missile shield - general

(AFP)
Updated: 2007-03-06 08:43

Russia's bomber force would have no trouble destroying planned US missile defense sites in Europe, its head said Monday as the country's security council warned of new policies to counter NATO.

This undated picture shows a supersonic Russian TU-160
This undated picture shows a supersonic Russian TU-160 "Blackjack" strategic bomber at the airfield in Engels, outside Saratov, Russia. Russia's bomber force would have no trouble destroying planned US missile defense sites in Europe, its head said. [AFP]

"Since the components of the anti-missile defence system are weakly protected, all types of our aircraft are capable of using electronic countermeasures against them and physically destroying them," Interfax news agency quoted Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov as saying.

The Kremlin has fiercely protested US plans to install an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Washington insists it would not be aimed at Russia but designed to counter attacks from countries such as Iran and North Korea.

Khvorov also said Russia is modernizing its fleet of Tu-160 strategic bombers, with two updated versions of the aircraft expected to be ready this year.

Known as Blackjack to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Tu-160 is a highly manoeuvrable supersonic strategic bomber.

Meanwhile the national security council said Russia is to adopt a new military doctrine in response to the "strengthening" of NATO forces, in the latest sign of worsening relations between the two sides.

"The analysis of the international situation shows that recourse to military force is increasingly the policy of leading world states," the council said in an announcement that the new doctrine was in preparation.

"The military policy of the principal countries devotes more and more energy to the modernisation of the armed forces," including updating their weapons technology and strategies, it said.

"Military alliances are strengthening, and especially NATO," the Russian security council claimed.

"Armed forces are being used above all as a principal instrument for pursuing the economic and political interests of countries" in the West, it said.

The council statement echoed hard-hitting speeches by Russian President Vladimir Putin last month.

In Moscow on February 22 Putin warned, "We are encountering a dangerous disdain for international law, ambitions to use military force to achieve personal interests," in what appeared to be a veiled reference to the United States.

His comments came less than two weeks after he made a full-frontal assault on US foreign policy in a speech in Munich, saying the United States had "overstepped its borders in all spheres."



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
盐池县| 九江县| 盐津县| 鹿泉市| 大兴区| 湟源县| 中江县| 辉县市| 泰兴市| 本溪| 眉山市| 嵊州市| 武清区| 内江市| 黄浦区| 永靖县| 蚌埠市| 腾冲县| 扬州市| 黔西县| 巴林左旗| 堆龙德庆县| 镇康县| 虎林市| 若尔盖县| 凤阳县| 平度市| 冕宁县| 阿尔山市| 安塞县| 鄂尔多斯市| 和平县| 久治县| 阿拉善左旗| 丹巴县| 南投县| 凌海市| 德兴市| 三亚市| 永靖县| 黄大仙区|