Russia's defence minister told President Vladimir Putin on Friday the first Avangard hypersonic missiles had been put into service, in a move hailed as a major coup for Moscow, SIA reports referring to AFP.
"The first missile regiment equipped with latest strategic missiles with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10 am Moscow time on December 27", Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu told a meeting in televised remarks. He congratulated the military on what he said was a "landmark event for the country and the armed forces."
Shoigu reported to Putin when the missiles entered service, a defence ministry official told AFP. Defence officials have earlier said that the first Avangard regiment was placed in the Orenburg region in the Urals. "This is the first intercontinental ballistic missile with the hypersonic glide vehicle in the world," Vasily Kashin, a senior research fellow at Moscow's Higher School of Economics, told AFP.
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