[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/europe-de-lest-et-pacte-de-varsovie-32/topic/tu-22-blinder-1208/?post=38669#post-38669]pilou[/url] a dit le 25/08/2007 à 15:33 :[/b]

[quote]MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) - [u]Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers[/u] successfully conducted a series of tactical exercises in the south of the country and in Kazakhstan this week, an Air Force spokesman said Friday. 

[u]The Tu-22M3 Backfire-C[/u] is a supersonic, swing-wing, long-range strategic bomber that Russia uses mainly to patrol the skies over its southern borders, Central Asia and the Black Sea region. 

"We held a series of strategic bomber exercises [[u]involving Tu-22M3 bombers[/u]] Tuesday and Friday to practice penetrating the air defenses of a potential adversary," Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky said.[/quote]

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