Russia extending Kant airbase to operate strategic bombers

摘要

Russia will be able to operate its strategic bomber fleet from its foreign military base in Kyrgyzstan within six months, Russia's defence minister has said. "Technically, we will complete the reconstruction [of the runway at the Kant airhase] in half a year," Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on 22 September.