See article.Poland is to buy American Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missiles.
The Typhoon is the superior air-to-air interceptor.
But another sore point with the Kremlin is America's plans for missile defences, and especially for the siting of ten interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.
It remains to be seen whether Russia would be any less hostile to the NATO missile-defence patchwork than it was to the large "ground-based midcourse interceptor" system pushed by the administration of George Bush.
Yet both Russia and Italy are opposed to American plans to place ten interceptor rockets in Poland and an anti-missile radar in the Czech Republic.
He says the two-stage interceptor is a simplified version of the three-stage version used above the Pacific.
Despite 150 assassinations since 2001, nobody has been convicted, nor has any senior Bulgarian official successfully been prosecuted for corruption.The other big issue is America's planned missile defence bases: ten interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.
I have heard no apologetic words from the Soviet or Russian governments nor any mention of compensation.TAKANORI KIKUCHIFort Lee, New JerseySIR In the late 1950s I was an interceptor pilot in the United States Air Force.
Broader changes would be needed before implementing in full the Pentagon's current plan for an anti-missile system with a second interceptor site, in North Dakota, and super-high-frequency radar stations in Greenland, Britain and possibly South Korea as well as other parts of the United States.
