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09-16-2009, 06:40 PM
Air Force Chief Major General Carlos Rafael Altuna Tezanos says that the Armed Forces need to change in order to fight new battles. The days of wars based on ideas are in the past. "The Armed Forces have changed. Our main enemy is no longer communism. The new threats are: asset laundering, drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism and devastation of the environment," he told El Caribe in an interview. Altuna has high hopes that the eight recently purchased Super Tucano jets will deliver a decisive blow to drug trafficking in the DR. He said Dominican pilots had spent 45 days training with the Brazilian air force. Altuna Tezanos added that drug traffickers used the DR because they know that neither radars nor airplanes are in place to pursue them.
He said a tender has been held to purchase the new radars that will defend the DR's air space.
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He said a tender has been held to purchase the new radars that will defend the DR's air space.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)