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Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 2

Those in charge of NATO's BMD project can't decide what air defense systems they should buy -- but they insist they should be American rather than Russian. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  16 Apr 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Vladimir Putin,  George W. Bush,  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 1

The results of the Bucharest NATO summit, the NATO-Russia Council meetings, and talks between U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi have been summed up in what has now become a standard comment: The NATO summit made up for ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  15 Apr 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  George W. Bush,  Vladimir Putin

Outside View: Russia's top general quits

It was reported last month that chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky was going to retire. There was no official denial of this report, and political analysts have interpreted it as valid. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  4 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Sergei Lavrov,  Condoleezza Rice,  Robert Gates,  Sergei Ivanov

Outside View: ABM talks deadlock -- Part 2

Sources in the Russian Defense Ministry are very dubious about the new U.S. proposals. Off the record, they insist that all proposals brought by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Moscow this time do not ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Robert Gates,  Condoleezza Rice,  Saddam Hussein,  United Nations

Outside View: ABM deadlock -- Part 1

Russia and the United States have completed talks on U.S. plans to deploy a third positioning anti-ballistic missile region in Europe. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  25 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Sergei Lavrov,  Condoleezza Rice,  Robert Gates

Outside View: MiGs for NATO? -- Part 2

The Russian-manufactured BTSVM MVK-03 computer will provide the backbone of a weapons control system for the MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters being sold to the Slovak air force, because the Slovak air force has large stockpiles of Russian-made bombs and missiles ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  13 Mar 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Lockheed Martin

Outside View: MiGs for NATO? -- Part 1

On Feb. 29, 2008, the Slovakian aircraft repair and manufacturing company Letecke Opravovne Trencin -- LOT -- returned 12 revamped Russian-manufactured MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to the Slovakian national air force at Sliac air base. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  12 Mar 2008
Related Topics: NATO,  Lockheed Martin

Outside View: Hornets for India? -- Part 2

The $1.5 billion contract signed by Russia's Sevmash Corp. to refit the aircraft carrier or air capable cruiser Admiral Gorshkov for the Indian navy hugely underestimated the true costs of modernization. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  3 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Kitty Hawk, Inc.

Outside View: Hornets for India? -- Part 1

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in India Tuesday amid rumors that he is to offer the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk as a sweetener if New Delhi buys 65 Boeing Super Hornet fighters. ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  29 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Boeing,  Kitty Hawk, Inc.,  Robert Gates

Outside View: Algeria MiG row -- Part 2

UPI Outside View Commentator MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Algerian experts are right when they talk about a drop in quality of Russian arms exports. This is openly admitted by top-ranking officials in charge of the Russian military-industrial sector, such ...

From NIKITA PETROV, United Press International,  27 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Sergei Ivanov

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