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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Belarus to sell Russian Iskander to Iran and Syria?

Deploying missile launchers Iskander in Belarus could be just an intermediate stage for selling armaments to Middle East, believes the military expert of Novaya Gazeta Pavel Feldengauer.

Colonel-General Vladimir Zaritsky, the chief of artillery and rocket forces for the Russian Ground Troops stated on Wednesday that the supply of the new Iskander tactical missile system to Belarus would be an asymmetrical response by Russia to the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in the Czech Republic and in Poland.

Earlier Belarusian chief of artillery and rocket forces General Mikhail Puzikau also told about planned delivered of Iskander systems.

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