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Raduga Kh-58 missile released to Georgia

08 August 2007 17:12 (UTC +04:00)

Georgia said Wednesday it has proof that Russian jets violated its airspace and released a missile that landed near a house. Russia has denied the claim, APAâ€™s Georgia bureau reports.
An investigator inspects the wreckage of what Georgian authorities claim to be an unexploded Russian missile.
Georgia’s Foreign Ministry issued a formal protest, calling the intrusion and firing of the missile "undisguised aggression and a gross violation of sovereignty of the country."
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that radar records compatible with NATO standards showed that a Russian Su-24 jet had flown from Russia into Georgia and launched a missile, which did not explode.
Investigators identified the weapon as the Russian-made Raduga Kh-58 missile designed to hit radars, the ministry said. The missile, code-named by NATO as AS-11, carried a warhead of over 300 pounds of TNT, it said. Russia’s air force has flatly denied that its planes had crossed into Georgia’s airspace. /APA/