Putin says Russia has tested new nuclear-capable missile
Associated Press
Russia has tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defences, inching closer to deploying it in combat, President Vladimir Putin has said.
In video released by the Kremlin on Sunday, Mr Putin, dressed in camouflage fatigues, could be seen meeting with senior Russian military figures.
The footage showed General Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of general staff, telling Mr Putin that the Burevestnik missile covered 8,700 miles in a key test on Tuesday.
Limit
Gen Gerasimov said the Burevestnik, or Storm Petrel in Russian, spent 15 hours in the air on nuclear power, adding “that’s not the limit”.
Mr Putin then told the general: “We need to determine the possible uses and begin preparing the infrastructure for deploying these weapons to our armed forces.”
Mr Putin also claimed the missile was invulnerable to current and future missile defences, due to its almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight path.
Drills
On Wednesday, Mr Putin directed drills of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches. The exercise came as his planned summit on Ukraine with US President Donald Trump was put on hold.
The Kremlin said the drills involved all parts of Moscow’s nuclear triad, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that were test-fired from launch facilities in north-western Russia and a submarine in the Barents Sea. The drills also involved Tu-95 strategic bombers firing long-range cruise missiles.
The exercise tested the skills of military command structures, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Penis measuring time. The whole point of a nuclear deterrent is the first mug to use one consigns the rest of the world to the bin.
Have you seen the film Dr Strangelove with Peter Sellers, classic !
Putin, he’s a grumpy old man, the barmy uncle no one goes near, lives in a house full of shotguns and army rifle range targets, iron crosses and daggers. Childhood eh!
Russia and North Korea vie in the ICBM contest closely followed by SpaceX, ‘you mean they weren’t supposed to explode…
I’ve watched a couple of launches lately and boy are they smooth…
That was never the case, just PR for the folks watching their black and white TVs, don’t blame Yogi Bear…
Wow! The whole Russian/Deform UK team are in a bouncing huddle over this one telling their little underling to forget Caerffili coz we can nuke it.