US experts visit Russian missile defence site

US missile defence experts today visited a Russian-operated radar station in Azerbaijan that Moscow is offering to share to counter potential missile threats from nations including Iran, but a top US general suggested its technology was outdated.

US experts visit Russian missile defence site

US missile defence experts today visited a Russian-operated radar station in Azerbaijan that Moscow is offering to share to counter potential missile threats from nations including Iran, but a top US general suggested its technology was outdated.

Experts visited the Gabala radar station amid stubborn tensions over US plans to install elements of a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, former Soviet satellites that are now members of Nato.

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