MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. On March 12, 2018, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper that Russia’s Defense Ministry had signed a contract on ...

The Russian defence ministry deployed its ferocious 'Avangard' hypersonic missile into combat duty at the Yasnenskoye missile formation in the Orenburg region in southern Urals on Saturday. According ...

Key point: Why have a regular missile, when you can have a faster hypersonic one that is harder to shoot down? That is the logic behind Russia’s impressive Avangard missile. Russian President Vladimir ...

Russia is struggling to manufacture a large number of new hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) — the Avangard (Vanguard in English) hypersonic boost-glide warhead — due to a lack of critical carbon fiber ...

Putin’s claims about the Avangard hypersonic missile are yet to be vetted. On Wednesday, December 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Russian Defense Ministry had conducted the final ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on 26 December 2018 announced a successful initial all-up flight test of the Avangard (Vanguard) hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). An UR-100N UTTH ICBM system equipped ...

A computer simulation shows the Avangard hypersonic vehicle being released from booster rockets. President Vladimir Putin says Russia has developed a range of new nuclear weapons, claiming they can't ...

Avangard is a silo-based missile system. Russia has deployed the deadly Avangard missiles in the Orenburg Region in southern Urals. It is one of the six "invincible" weapons unveiled by Russian ...

Key point: Hypersonic missiles are all the rage these days among the great powers as they are very hard to stop. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s March 1, 2018 annual annual state-of-the-nation ...

The first Russian Strategic Missile Forces regiment armed with a new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) — the Avangard (Vanguard in English) hypersonic boost-glide warhead — will be operational in 2019, ...