MOSCOW - Russia may use its strategic bombers to unleash preventive strikes against terrorists outside its borders, the commander of Russia's air force said Friday.
Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov's comments to the ITAR-Tass news agency aired on Friday were the most direct yet in Russia's rising rhetoric on attacking terrorists abroad. Mikhailov did not specify what targets the air force could potentially go after.
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and other top officials have said that preventive strikes against terrorists could involve all means except nuclear, but they never went into such specifics as suggesting the use of strategic bombers.
Neither the Soviet Union nor Russia have publicly conducted air strikes outside their borders with the exception of the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Soviet pilots flew missions in Korea and during the Mideast wars of the 1960s-70s, but that was done covertly.
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