MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov exclusively for RIA...
high-frequency radar on the Anatolian Plateau capable of not only detecting foreign missile launches but also targeting its interceptor missiles at them. Russian military experts believe that in addition to the new radar, Washington may set up a base for interceptor missiles that will be really used against Iran.The problem is that Washington has never said when it intends to stop the deployment of its missile defense system. Army General Yury Baluyevsky, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said with good reason at a news conference at RIA Novosti last December that Washington will not stop at Poland and the Czech Republic, and that it will have missile interceptors in Norway and Britain. Now it transpires that it may deploy them in Turkey as well.
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