Media: four NATO countries to develop long-range cruise missiles

France, Germany, Italy and Poland have reached an agreement on the joint development of long-range cruise missiles on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, TASS reports

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Reuters news agency reported that the countries had signed a letter of intent. It is known that the missiles will have a range of more than 500km.

The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung clarifies that it refers to the missiles with a range of over 1,000km – able to ‘reach Russian targets from German territory’. Italian media add that the document was signed in order to ‘strengthen ground defence’.