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| Russian President
Vladimir Putin sits inside the Tupolev-160 strategic bomber
jet at the Moscow's Chkalovsky military airport
(AFP) | |
President Vladimir Putin donned navy uniform to watch a missile launch
at sea yesterday, hours after dressing as a pilot and flying in a
supersonic bomber.
"I think a man in my position must know how it all happens," the
president said after a five-hour flight on a giant TU160 strategic bomber
to test-fire a cruise missile
over northern Russia.
Then, Putin, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, stood on board
of the Pyotr Veliky cruiser to watch the Sineva missile blast out of the
water and vanish into the gray sky after being launched by the submerged
nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg near the Kola Peninsula.
It hit a target 5,000 miles away in Russia's far east, helping to
offset the failed missile
launches when he attended his country's largest naval exercises in two
decades last year.
The former KGB spy is a regular guest at lavish demonstrations of his
country's military might. As well as a missile launch, yesterday's flight
involved mid-air refuelling and a low-level pass just 200 yards above the
sea's surface at 560mph.
Putin said he was pleased with the result of the exercise, in which a
group of Northern Fleet ships and submarines were to prevent another group
from deploying into the open sea and simulating the launch of nuclear
missiles.
"Everyone probably remembers the failed launch last year," Putin said
at a news conference on the Pyotr Veliky. "Now, all of the shortcomings
have been corrected."
After leaving an Arctic air base to join this week's war games , Mr Putin, 52, played down his
simulated bombing raid.
"I think that's how people feel when they fly in their dreams at
night," he said of the experience.
His visibility at exercises featuring nuclear test launches underscores
his commitment to modernizing Russia's strategic
forces.
(Agencies) |
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