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"U.S. faults Putin plan on radar system"
WASHINGTON: Technical experts from the United States have inspected Russian radar equipment in Azerbaijan, but the director of the Pentagon's missile-defense program has emphatically said that the Soviet-era early-warning system is incapable of replacing a tracking radar that the United States had proposed basing in the Czech Republic.The official, Lieutenant General Henry Obering 3rd, has pressed the Kremlin to drop its objections to U.S. proposals for 10 missile interceptors in Poland and the radar system in the Czech Republic. In a speech Tuesday here at the European Institute, a public-policy organization focused on trans-Atlantic affairs, he urged Moscow to link its radar system in Azerbaijan into the proposed U.S. one in Central Europe, running them in tandem.
The visit to Azerbaijan by a high-level delegation of missile experts came on Tuesday and was in response to a proposal from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, to drop U.S. plans for new missile-defense construction in Central Europe, and to instead use the Russian radar in a system to defend against a possible Iranian threat. The delegation was led by Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly, the missile agency's deputy director. It was the first time U.S. military officers had been allowed into the facility.
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