Sunday, June 14, 2020

Putin Boasts That Russia Will Be Able To Counter Hypersonic Weapons

A Russian ballistic missile defense system is being tested by the military © MOD

VOA/Reuters: Putin says Russia Will be Able to Counter Hypersonic Weapons

MOSCOW - Russia will soon be in a position to counter hypersonic arms deployed by other countries, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, adding that Moscow was ahead of the United States in developing new types of weapons.

Hypersonic glide vehicles can steer an unpredictable course and manoeuvre sharply as they approach impact. They also follow a much flatter and lower trajectory than ballistic missiles.

Washington and Moscow have been expanding their defense capabilities as some Cold War-era arms control agreements collapsed during worsening of Russia's ties with the West.

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Update: ‘We’ll PLEASANTLY SURPRISE them’: Russia will be able to counter hypersonic weapons once others develop them, Putin pledges -- RT

WNU Editor: President Trump with his "super duper missile. Now Russian President Putin boasting that Russia will be able to stop a "super duper missile". I hear a lot of chest thumping from a lot of world leaders.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...


WNU

All I hear are more dollars, rubles, etc., going down the drain.

Jac said...

Putin...always the same.

Anonymous said...

Bullshit. The same reason NATO and China can't counter hypersonics applies to Russia just as well. Unless they've got a quantum computer and some laser weaponry nobody knows about I don't see this as anything more than bluster for the domestic audience.