another job well done king hussein...


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Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of
the
United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols
in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.

"This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the
Russian
air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military
news agency.

The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project
its
military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight
defence
budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated.