Russia becomes first country to put into combat service intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with hypersonic weapons
An image from a video made by the Russian Defence Ministry shows an intercontinental ballistic missile lifting off from a truck-mounted launcher. The Russian military said its Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty on Friday.
"The first missile regiment equipped with latest strategic missiles with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10 am Moscow time on December 27", Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu told a meeting in televised remarks. "This is the first intercontinental ballistic missile with the hypersonic glide vehicle in the world," Vasily Kashin, a senior research fellow at Moscow's Higher School of Economics, told AFP.Analysts say Russia is the first country to put into combat service intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with hypersonic weapons that Putin said can travel 20 times faster than the speed of sound.
Shoigu has said that new Russian weapons allow Moscow to ensure the country's security without starting a costly new arms race with the West.The New START, which caps the number of nuclear warheads well below Cold War limits, is the last remaining major arms control treaty between Russia and the United States.
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