Russia will apparently use surplus UR-100UTTKh (NATO: SS-19 Stiletto) and the RS-28 Sarmat liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as the launch vehicle for its Avangard hypersonic ...
Russia’s hyped “super weapons” may matter less for what they can do than for the fear they are meant to create.
A Russian state-owned media channel broadcasting on behalf of its defense ministry reportedly aired footage of a hypersonic nuclear missile being loaded into a launch silo. Russia's invasion of ...
Despite low pay, backward infrastructure and deepening suspicions, Russian scientists helped test and deploy the first hypersonic glide vehicle in late 2019. Credit: Kremlin Press Center The ...
Key point: Why have a regular missile, when you can have a faster hypersonic one that is harder to shoot down? That is the logic behind Russia’s impressive Avangard missile. Russian President Vladimir ...
Second Avangard hypersonic missile regiment to go on combat alert by 2023 MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The first regiment of strategic missile systems with the Avangard boost-glide vehicle will go on ...
Three people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons factory in Sterlitamak, in Russia's Bashkortostan, authorities said. The blast at the Avangard plant, some 1,500 kilometers east of Moscow, ...
Russia is arguably the country that is most actively developing new nuclear weapons and delivery systems. With at least six strategic projects unveiled in recent years, including a new ...
MOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missile systems that went on combat alert in late 2019 in the Orenburg Region will assume its full strength in late 2021, a ...
Two down, more to go? With hypersonic weapons already in the field, Russia looks to improve features
The Avangard hypersonic vehicle blasts off during a test launch at an undisclosed location in Russia. (RU-RTR Russian Television via AP) MOSCOW — Hypersonic weapons are a top priority for the Russian ...
The Sarmat ICBM blasts off during a test launch March 30, 2018, from the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State ...
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