Hmmm.... what exactly was 'dropped' in Vanni...?
Impressive arsenal we are having now....
But Russian news reports said at least some of the planes will now be re-equipped with a new smaller missile which in Russian is called OFAB-500 and which carries a massive cluster bomb weighing 515 kilograms (1,130 pounds).
The pudgy weapon only has a top speed of 1,200 kilometers (720 miles) an hour but would be launched from bombers that can reach any spot on earth.
A military source told ITAR-TASS the first Tu-160 has been equipped with 45 tons of bombs - or about 90 missiles.
'These new cruise missiles are a very precise weapon,' the Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) official defense ministry newspaper wrote.
'The crew will be capable of delivering, as they say, a 'present' through an open window,' the paper said. |