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    MIGS VERSUS TERRORISTS
    by Igor Yelkov

    Agency WPS
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Moscow issue), October 20, 2006, p. 10
    October 23, 2006 Monday

    Russian fighters returned the "hijacked" AN-26 to Ukraine

    LIEUTENANT GENERAL AITECH BIZHEV, DEPUTY COMMANDER OF RUSSIAN AIR
    FORCE, REPORTED ABOUT RESULTS OF EXERCISES OF THE UNITED AIR DEFENSE
    SYSTEM OF THE CIS; The training taking and hijacking of a military
    cargo airplane AN-26 from the Ukrainian airport of Borispol became
    the most breathtaking episode of the military exercises of the united
    air defense system of the CIS.

    The training taking and hijacking of a military cargo airplane AN-26
    from the Ukrainian airport of Borispol became the most breathtaking
    episode of the military exercises of the united air defense system
    of the CIS.

    Ninety-seven airplanes of the military aviation of Russia, Armenia,
    Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine
    participated in the staff command exercises. Lieutenant General
    Aitech Bizhev, Deputy Commander of the Russian Air Force, called the
    "hijacking" of AN-26 from the airport of Borispol the most interesting
    episode.

    Bizhev said: - Our fighters took off from the airdrome near Kursk
    intercepted and guided this airplane to the border of Ukraine and
    handed it over to Ukrainian fighters for landing on the departure
    airfield.

    In the course of the exercises two Russian airplanes of long-range
    radar surveillance A-50 provided for surveillance of airspace above
    a huge territory.

    Lieutenant General Bizhev explained that one A-50 operated in the
    area of Mozdok providing for command of the crews of interceptors
    being on duty on the air base in Armenia. The second A-50 was in the
    area of Minsk and commanded Belarusian fighters.

    Neither the interceptors nor the crews of air defense missile systems
    performed real combat launches. Pilots and missile crews performed the
    entire cycle of homing and killed conventional targets of the probable
    enemy, according to the general, "with assistance of electronic shots."

    General of the Army Vladimir Mikhailov, Commander of the Russian Air
    Force, summed up the result: - The united air defense system of the
    CIS grew better than the air defense system of the Soviet Union. We
    preserved all command posts that existed on the territory of the Soviet
    Union. We control the situation not only on the territory of Russia but
    also on a territory even bigger than the territory of the former USSR.

    Mikhailov added that very soon the united air defense system of the
    union state of Russia and Belarus would be legalized by documents.

    According to participants, in comparison to previous exercises skills
    of both pilots and air defense command bodies of Uzbekistan grew
    significantly. Uzbek airplanes performed seven flights.

    Non-participation of Georgia was another peculiarity of the
    exercises. In any case, according to Russian experts, even in the
    time when Georgia participated in such exercises its air defense
    system was inefficient. Nonetheless, we preserved direct channels
    of communication with the Georgian Air Force command post. According
    to General Bizhev, "Our systems fully view the entire airspace above
    Georgia up to Turkey."
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