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Russia claims secret US operation sabotaged its superjet plane that crashed in Indonesia |
Russian military intelligence
has claimed that a U.S. undercover operation could have damaged its new superjet
plane that crashed in Indonesia two weeks ago. The aircraft was on a demonstration
flight aimed at securing lucrative orders when it crashed into a mountain, which
killed all 45 people onboard, the Daily Mail reports. "We are investigating the
theory that it was industrial sabotage," a GRU military intelligence source said.
Moscow has made the claim that the U.S. used powerful lasers to zap a Russian
Mars probe seven months ago. After the Mars probe failed, Russian space chief
Vladimir Popovkin warned: "We don't want to accuse anybody, but there are very
powerful devices that can influence spacecraft now". He stressed: "The frequent
failure of our space launches, which occur at a time when they are flying over
the part of Earth not visible from Russia, where we do not see the spacecraft
and do not receive telemetric information, are not clear to us". It has been argued
that other satellite launches, of which about half a dozen failed in last 18 months,
could have been possible work of US sabotage. "We know that they have special
technology, that we also have, to jam signals from the ground or cause parameter
readings to malfunction," an unnamed intelligence official said. He also highlighted
that the US military was present at Jakarta Airport from where the plane took
off on May 9. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is the first entirely new passenger plane
unveiled by Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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