While much of the West was still recovering from holiday meals and cleaning up scraps of wrapping paper from the floor, Russian military officials were preparing for a test of the country’s new super-fast missile system. A successful launch of the new intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out earlier today, and the country has since released video of the test.
The missile system, which has been named Avangard, combines a powerful ballistic missile with what is called a “hypersonic glider.” Russia claims the system is capable of speeds exceeding Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound), and that the missile can perform evasive maneuvers to avoid modern missile defense systems.
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Russia says there’s no defense against its new hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 13:21:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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