The weapon is capable of flying 27 times faster than the speed of sound. 😲
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that the first missile unit equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered combat duty.
The Strategic Missile Forces chief, Gen. Sergei Karakayev, said during the call that the Avangard was put on duty with a unit in the Orenburg region in the southern Urals Mountains. Putin has charged that Russia had to develop the Avangard and other prospective weapons systems because of the US efforts to develop a missile defense system that he claimed could erode Russia’s nuclear deterrent.
Russian media reports indicated that the Avangard will first be mounted on Soviet-built RS-18B intercontinental ballistic missiles, code-named SS-19 by NATO.
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