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Moscow sends missiles to Belarus after Warsaw gets US warplanes
AFP ^ | 10 November 2006

Posted on 11/10/2006 7:20:07 AM PST by Grzegorz 246

MOSCOW - Russia has sent anti-aircraft systems to Belarus in retaliation against the delivery to Poland of US-made F-16 warplanes, a source in the Moscow-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) said on Friday.

“Anticipating the arrival of the F-16s in Poland, Russia has sent to Belarus four S-300 anti-aircraft systems which have already been put into service,” according to a source at the headquarters of the anti-aircraft defence alliance of the CIS, quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency.

The CIS is made up of the former members of the Soviet Union less the three Baltic states.

The alliance was set up in 1995 by 10 CIS members (all bar Azerbaijan and Moldova) to protect the air borders of the former Soviet republics.

On Thursday Poland took delivery of the first four of the 48 F-16 fighters it has ordered from US plane-maker Lockheed Martin.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: belarus; cis; coldwar2; moscowpact; poland; putin; russia; sovietunion

1 posted on 11/10/2006 7:20:08 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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2 posted on 11/10/2006 7:20:42 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

I guess Russia wants another arms race to bankrupt its economy. Interesting.


3 posted on 11/10/2006 8:32:21 AM PST by monkeybrau
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To: Grzegorz 246

bump


4 posted on 11/10/2006 9:10:11 AM PST by Centurion2000 (If the Romans had nukes, Carthage would still be glowing.)
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To: Grzegorz 246
HARM will b ethe answer.


5 posted on 11/10/2006 3:37:40 PM PST by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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