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Monday, August 20, 2007

Russian carrier in full service, says state TV


Aircraft-carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is back at sea

Russia has started flying jets again from its only operational aircraft carrier after a two-year break, state-run television reported on Sunday in the latest show of the country's reviving military capability.

"Aircraft are taking off and landing from the deck of the Kuznetsov after a gap of two years. To the pilots and crew (the gap) seemed enormous," Channel One television said in a report from on board the vessel.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia was returning to its Soviet-era practice of sending long-range bomber aircraft on regular patrols near to NATO airspace.

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