Advanced weaponry in Russia’s nuclear trial has reached 82%, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, Eurasia Diary reports citing TASS.
"The share of modern armament in the nuclear trial has reached 82% and the latest Avangard strategic hypersonic missile system with the boost-glide vehicle has started to arrive for the Strategic Missile Force," Putin told a Defense Ministry expanded board meeting.
Putin called the Avangard system the weapon of the future capable of overcoming both existing and promising missile defenses.
Summing up the results of the Russian Armed Forces’ activity in 2019, the head of state said that many qualitative and systemic changes had taken place over that period.