Russian Federation develops new strategic weapons to counter U.S. challenges

Russia Strategic Missile Force Commander Sergei Karakayev told the state news agency Tass that one of their missiles, the Avangard, has already been tested and is ready to use.

“I believe it was a response to the missile defense systems that have been deployed by the United States in Europe”.

It follows the unveiling by President Putin of what he claimed was a new arsenal of advanced weaponry including nuclear devices immune to enemy interception.

Such weaponry as hypersonic Avangard missile, which is capable of cruising at a Mach number of 20, calls into question the relevance of the USA missile defense network, the editor-in-chief of Arsenal Otechestva (Arsenal of the Fatherland) journal, Alexei Leonkov, said. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important.

He added that it’s a hypersonic missile carried by an aircraft that flies at a speed 10 times of the speed of sound and has a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles) away.

He said Russia’s technological breakthroughs could give its military new global standing and showed videos of new weapons to frequent applause during his speech. When outfitted with a nuclear power plant, the warhead mirrors the U.S. Tomahawk Missile, but with “a flight range that is dozens of times greater” boasted the Russian president.

Putin said the nuclear-powered cruise missile Russian Federation tested several months ago had a “practically unlimited” range and high speed and maneuverability that could pierce any missile defense.

The moves come as relations between the global powers plummeted to levels not seen since the Cold War over crises in Ukraine and Syria, and accusations that Moscow interfered in the United States election in 2016.

Putin left his usual Kremlin perch to this year speak from a nearby exhibition centre – allowing him to show a series of video montages of missiles crossing mountains and oceans, heading over the Atlantic before striking the U.S. eastern seaboard. All you wanted to impede with your policies have already happened.

“You failed to deter Russian Federation”.

The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it plans to sell Ukraine 210 anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from Russian Federation, in a major escalation of USA lethal assistance to Ukraine’s military.

“We’ve been watching Russian Federation”, chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White told reporters Thursday.

Putin described the nuclear weapon as a missile with an unlimited range that can maneuver for as long as necessary.

The missile, also known as RS-28 Sarmat, has a range of 9600 kilometres and was sacked on Thursday night from Plestek Cosmodrome in Oblast, 880km north of Moscow.

“We aren’t threatening anyone, we aren’t going to attack anyone, we aren’t going to take anything from anyone”, he said.

On that basis it has been reported that the weapon could “wipe out an area the size of England and Wales twice over”.

Committee staffers said they began probing Kremlin attempts to influence America’s energy markets in the summer of 2017 while investigating an intricate Russian money-laundering scheme created to smear US environmental organizations and distort the domestic energy debate.

Mr Putin addressed domestic issues head on in the speech, pledging to halve the 20-million-strong ranks of Russia’s poor by the middle of the next decade and boost incomes across the country. Putin also called for improvements to the nation’s health care system and building needed infrastructure projects.

“They have not succeeded in holding Russian Federation back”, Putin said, in a reference to the United States and its Western allies.

The presidential election in Russian Federation is coming up in a couple weeks, and Putin is expected to win over his seven opponents.

Putin spoke in a yearly speech before Russian officials and lawmakers in Moscow.