Russia will soon be able to counter hypersonic weapons, which other countries have developed, says president Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
The Russian leader said that Russia is ahead of the UNITED states in the development of the new type high-tech weapon, which flies at least five times faster than the speed of sound.
Hypersonic missiles can be programmed to unpredictable lanes and make sharp maneuvers when approaching a target. They can follow the flatter and much lower trajectories than ballistic missiles.
the UNITED states and Russia have expanded their defence capabilities, according to several disarmament agreements from the cold war era, arms control has broken down. Tensions between Russia and the West are at the same time, taken over a number of years.
Russia, established last year, its first hypersonic missiles able to carry nuclear weapons. The us department of defense, the Pentagon intends to develop hypersonic missiles in the beginning or in the middle of the 2020’s.
– Probably we will have the means to fight hypersonic weapons at the time, where the world’s leading countries have such weapons, says Putin, according to news agency RIA.
While Russia and the UNITED states in the large and whole has the same number of nuclear weapons, as is Russia, according to Putin ahead in the development of advanced weapons.
the Kremlin has made the modernisation of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces to one of its highest priorities, and there has been a big focus on a new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound.