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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Russia bombing incident in Georgia and NATO

Last week the Republic of Georgia charged that two military Russian aircraft, possibly of the SU type, violated Georgian airspace and had loosed some sort of precision guided bomb. The Russian government of course, denied all culpability in the attack.

The pieces of the investigation are now starting to come together. It was determined that only one aircraft, not two, flew over the border, and that the ordnance was not a bomb at all, but an anti-radiation missile called the Kh-58U, known by the NATO codename AS-11 Kilter.

Georgian Deputy Defense Minister Kutelia has pointed out that the aircraft were tracked by a Georgian radar station that is "highly sophisticated and up to NATO standards [emphasis added]".

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