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MAJOR MILESTONE BY RUSSIA

AVANGARD

• Russia claims to have deployed Avangard hypersonic missiles
• The location of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle has not been confirmed but  has been widely reported to be the Urals,  a mountain range in western Russia.

AVANGARD HYPERSONIC MISSILES

• Vladimir Putin said that the missiles put Russia ahead of the rest of the world. “Not a single country possesses  hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range  hypersonic weapons,” he said, arguing that the West  was “playing catch-up with us”.
• “The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defence means of the  potential adversary.”

MACH EXPLANATION

• By definition, Mach number is a ratio of the speed of a body (aircraft) to the speed of sound in the  undisturbed medium through which the body is
• It is said that the aircraft is flying at Mach 1 if its speed is equal to the speed of sound in air (which is 332 m/s  or 1195 km/hr or 717 miles/hour.) An aircraft flying at  Mach 2 is flying at twice the speed of sound in air, etc.

INTERCONTINENTAL-RANGE  SUPERSONIC

AVANGARD

• Speed – Mach 20-27
• Range?
• Mr Putin unveiled the Avangard and other weapons systems in his annual state-of-the-nation address in March 2018, likening it to a  “meteorite” and a “fireball”.
• In December 2018, the weapon hit a practice target
• 6,000km (3,700 miles) away in a test launch at Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains.

WHY RUSSIA DEPLOYED A HYPERSONIC  MISSILE SO EARLY?

• The coming decade will be very eventful for Russia Belarus – Russia merger will be a very difficult  process
• Since Soviet Era Russia has believed in the policy of MAD
• Dead Hand system – Is a classic reminder of that

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