Russia Augments Fire-Fighting Capabilities

Credit: Russian Emergency Situations Agency
Russia is scrambling to expand and modernize its aerial fire-fighting capabilities now that the inability to curtail the havoc brought by widespread forest fires has revealed shortcomings of the current inventory. Russia’s worst heat wave and drought on record led to massive fires that have affected...

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