US, Russia to conduct new drills

Tue Jan 4, 2011

The United States and Russia are planning new hijacking exercises to test their air defense abilities in the face of what they call potential international hijacking by terrorists.

Russia and the North American Aerospace Defense Command will hold a meeting in Russia in February to plan their second joint hijacking exercise, US Air Force Lt. Col. Lee Haefner said.

After reviewing the first joint exercise conducted across the Pacific in August, Haefner, the exercise's lead planner, said that it “was pretty much carried on flawlessly.”

The first round of hijacking exercises were planned for 2008 but were postponed when US-Russian relations were strained following a brief war between Russia and Georgia.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158620.html.