BRUSSELS Belgium -- Scores of U.S. cruise missiles and radar-evading bombers, leading punishing NATO attacks, struck Serb air defenses, power grids, arms factories, airports, barracks and command-and-control centers across Yugoslavia and in Kosovo.

In all, more than 40 targets were struck in the first day of strikes Wednesday, NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark, said Thursday. He said they included command-and-control facilities, air defenses and some facilities "associated with the Yugoslav military and ministerial police forces.""There is no planned sanctuary," Clark said, although downtown Belgrade was not struck.

Two B-2 stealth bombers, each carrying 16 satellite-guided one-ton bombs in the first combat test of the bat-winged plane, delivered some of the heaviest hits, including on command bunkers and air defenses, said a senior U.S. defense official who insisted on anonymity.

The airstrikes, launched in darkness Wednesday about 8 p.m. in Yugoslavia (noon MST), were expected to continue Thursday night and possibly for weeks.

"It's going to take more than one day," Defense Secretary William Cohen said on NBC's "Today" show, citing Yugoslavia's "fairly robust and redundant air defense systems."

Cohen said NATO planners picked targets "with great care."

"We are attacking the military infrastructure" that Serbian forces directed by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic "are using to repress and kill innocent people," Cohen said.

Lt. Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic, commander of Yugoslav troops in Kosovo, had called the impact of the overnight NATO attack "minimal."

But the Russian General Staff in Moscow said NATO attacks badly damaged five military airfields, two factories, a communications center, several barracks and a police training base.

An official NATO bomb damage assessment will come from satellite photos and surveillance planes, Pentagon officials said. Camera footage from warplanes and pilots also will provide details.

The Yugoslav army reiterated its defiance after the night of airstrikes, saying the "high morale of the units was preserved." Milosevic congratulated Yugoslav military commands for their "brave resistance." Authorities said that 10 people were killed and 60 were wounded.

Air raid sirens blared again Thursday and the state news agency reported more fighting in Kosovo. It was not clear whether further NATO attacks took place in the daylight.

The Yugoslav Defense Ministry in a statement Thursday called the NATO attacks an "unprecedented criminal act" that support ethnic Albanian "terrorists."

The NATO attack began with sea- and air-launched cruise missiles, more than 50, many aimed at the Serbs' sophisticated air defense system, which consists of up to 1,000 Russian-designed surface-to-air missiles with advanced guidance systems capable of shooting down allied planes.

U.S. B-52 and B-2 bombers, F-16 fighter-bombers and F-117 stealth bombers, as well as Canadian F-18s and other NATO aircraft from 11 countries, also were in the 400-plane force.

In Wednesday's attacks, more than 20 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two U.S. surface ships in and around the Adriatic Sea, plus one American and one British submarine, U.S. defense officials said Thursday. The B-52 bombers fired up to 4 dozen air-launched cruise missiles, officials said.

U.S. and allied fighter-jets downed at least two Soviet-made MiGs. The Pentagon said no NATO aircraft were lost as Serbs engaged in dogfights rather than launch anti-aircraft missiles. One U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jet did make an emergency landing Thursday in Bosnia-Herzegovina, next door to Yugoslavia. But U.S. officials said it had been flying a routine mission over Bosnia when a hydraulic pump went awry and was not damaged by Yugoslav air defenses.

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Around Belgrade, NATO struck near a power plant and the Batajnica military airport, the main Serbian air base 10 miles west of the Serb capital. Four missiles also struck an aircraft plant at Pancevo, six miles north of Belgrade, destroying several small planes.

The central Serb town of Kragujevac, a major military-industrial center, was plunged into darkness after a heavy explosion, the private news agency Beta reported.

A power grid also was hit in the Kosovo capital of Pristina, and several heavy blasts came from around the nearby Slatina airport, as well, the official Tanjug news agency reported.

In neighboring Montenegro, which with Serbia forms Yugoslavia, an army military barracks in Danilovgrad burst into flames after being hit. One soldier was reported killed and three wounded. Serbian TV said several civilians were wounded in attacks throughout the country.

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