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Russian strategic bombers
run Arctic exercise
Reuters
Monday Sept 3, 2007
Twelve Russian strategic bombers will take part in an Arctic
exercise on Monday and Tuesday including tactical launches of
cruise missiles, an air force spokesman said.
He did not specify where the exercise was taking place but said
TU-95MC bombers would take off from five air bases stretching
from the Volga River city of Engels to Anadyr on the Chukotka
Peninsula overlooking the United States.
"The planes will also practice mid-air refuelling from Il-78
transport planes," the spokesman said.
Last month, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's air force
to resume long-range patrols by the strategic bombers, abandoned
since the end of the Cold War.
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In line with his assertive foreign policy and efforts to build
up the Russian armed forces, Putin has said the resumption of
patrols is needed to guarantee national security.
The air force exercise also follows a widely advertised scientific
expedition to the North Pole last month with the task of finding
justification for Russia's claims for a bigger slice of the Arctic
zone, believed to have rich mineral resources.
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