Belarusian aircraft ready to carry nuclear payload, Lukashenko says

Aleksandr Lukashenko stated that the conversion of military aircraft of the Air Force of Belarus has already been completed.

Now they can carry nuclear weapons.

He emphasized that the need for such actions is a “response” to the actions of the West.

“They have to understand that no helicopters or aircraft will save them if they (the West – Ed.) decide to aggravate the situation. Putin and I once said in St Petersburg that we will refit Belarusian Su-24 aircraft among other things so that they could carry nuclear weapons. Do you think we talk nonsense? Everything is ready!” Lukashenko said.

The Belarusian Gayun monitoring group reports that when it came to re-equipment of Russian aviation, in June of this year, Lukashenko asked to re-equip Su-35 aircraft, which are not in service with Belarus.

Putin noted that Su-25 jet aircraft could be converted for such purposes.

As a result, according to Lukashenko, Su-24 jet aircraft became the carriers of nuclear weapons.

The Su-24 is a strike aircraft designed to carry out missile-bomb strikes in simple and difficult weather conditions, day and night, including at low altitudes with targeted defeat of ground and surface targets.

As previously reported, in 2012 the Su-24 aircraft were withdrawn from the Air Force of Belarus.

In addition, it is known that in 2013 Belarus delivered 12 Su-24M attack aircraft to Sudan.

It is not known what exactly the converted planes are.