Russian navy to get hypersonic nuclear strike weapons: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Sunday the Russian navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones, that your Protection Ministry said were in their last phase of testing.
Putin, who all says he does not want a great arms race, has frequently spoken of a fresh generation of Russian nuclear weapons that he says happen to be unequalled and can hit almost anywhere in the world. Some Western experts have got questioned how advanced they happen to be.
The weapons, a few of which have yet to be deployed, are the Poseidon underwater nuclear drone, made to be carried by submarines, and the Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile, that can be deployed on surface ships. The combination of speed, manoeuvrability and altitude of hypersonic missiles, with the capacity of travelling at a lot more than five times the acceleration of sound, makes them difficult to monitor and intercept.
Speaking in St Petersburg by an total annual naval parade that showcases Russia's best ships, nuclear submarines and naval aviation, Putin stated the navy's capacities were developing and it would receive 40 new vessels this season. He did not specify when it would receive innovative hypersonic weapons, but suggested that moment was drawing closer.
"The widespread deployment of advanced digital technologies which may have no equals on the globe, including hypersonic strike systems and underwater drones, will give the fleet different advantages and improved combat capabilities," Putin said.
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In another statement produced via Russian news agencies, the Defense Ministry said testing of the Belgorod, the primary submarine with the capacity of carrying the Poseidon drones, was underway and testing of the weapons systems was nearing completion.
"Work is being successfully accomplished to create contemporary weapons devices for the Navy," it had been cited while saying. Mr Putin this past year threatened to deploy hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines that could lurk outside US territorial waters if america moved to deploy intermediate-spectrum nuclear weapons in Europe.
Washington hasn't deployed such missiles in Europe, but Moscow is worried it could.
