Russian Strategic Missile Pressure Commander Colonel Common Sergey Karakayev introduced on June 5 that the a second regiment of intercontinental ballistic missiles integrating Avangard hypersonic glide autos was making ready to go on fight alert. “At the moment one full-complement regiment is on responsibility and the second regiment is making ready to go on fight alert. That is present-day actuality. By the way, from the standpoint of the influence of the anti-ballistic missile defence on this weapon, there isn’t a functionality to counter it. They can not even think about how they’ll counter this weapon as we speak,” he acknowledged. The primary unit geared up with Avangard glide autos entered service in December 2019 with the thirteenth Crimson Banner Rocket Division, and are appropriate with a variety of intercontinental vary ballistic missile designs such because the R-36M2 and Topol M. The regiment reached full power in 2021.
The Avangard was reportedly developed from the mid 2000s to answer the rising sophistication of NATO missile defences and their rising deployments each at sea and in Jap Europe, and no system able to reliably intercepting them is predicted to develop into operational for not less than a number of many years. Improvement leveraged Soviet investments in strategic hypersonic weapons growth which was deserted because the Russian financial system declined following the top of the Chilly Struggle, and restarted within the 2000s. The glide automobile’s scramjet engine design allows it to ship strikes at speeds exceeding Mach 27 whereas retaining excessive manoeuvrability in flight. The weapons system has regularly been referenced to since its unveiling in March 2018 for example of Russian power because of its distinctive placing energy, and has been described by President Vladimir Putin as impacting targets “like a meteor, like a fireball.” Strategic weapons have performed a very necessary position in Russia’s defence for the reason that finish of the Chilly Struggle because of the sharp decline of the nation’s standard forces, and remained central regardless of a gradual restoration of non-nuclear forces from the mid 2000s.
