Modern combat jets of Russia are demonstrated during a military parade at the Red Square, May 9, 2008.
Photo: Dmitry Azarov
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Russia’s Combat Jets May Fly Back to Cuba
Russia’s combat jets will probably return to Cuba, Izvestia newspaper reported.
“While they are stationing missile-defense shields in Poland and the Czech Republic, our jets of far-distance strategic aviation land in Cuba,” a high-ranked source said in the interview with Izvestia.
“In terms of technical capacity, both supersonic missile carrier Tu-160 (the pilots call it the White Swan) and strategic bomber Tu-95MS (NATO calls it the Bear) are able to reach Cuba. But the technical capacity won’t suffice here, the political decision is required,” Izvestia wrote.
“People are talking, but those are only the talks. I won’t say there is nothing behind it,” said a high-ranked official in the Staff of Long-Distance Strategic Aviation.
If strategic jets of Russia had landed in Cuba indeed, the United States would have noticed and responded to it, the analysts said.
“There are just 90 miles from Cuba to the U.S. coast. Besides, the United States has “eyes and ears” in Cuba, in the very island – the Guantanamo base,” the newspaper specified.
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