“The Avangard is a Russian hypersonic glide vehicle capable of flying over Mach 20 – 24,700km/h, or 4 miles per second – and one of the game-changing Russian weapons Putin announced at his ground-breaking March 1 speech.
The Avangard has been in the production assembly line since the summer of 2018, and is due to become operational in the southern Urals by the end of next year or early 2019.
In the near future, the Avangard may be launched by the formidable Sarmat RS-28 intercontinental ballistic missile and reach Washington in a mere 15 minutes, flying in a cloud of plasma “like a meteorite” – even if the launch is from Russian territory. Serial production of Sarmat ICBMs starts in 2021.
The Avangard simply cannot be intercepted by any existing system on the planet – and the US knows it. Here is General John Hyten, head of US Strategic Command:
“We don’t have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us.”
There will be no war against Russia or any war that significantly threatens Russian interests IF they have such an advantage in the skies.
“Trump’s obsession on strangling Iran into economic submission is a no-go, even for the Macron-Merkel-led European Union. On top of it, the Russia-China strategic partnership simply won’t allow any funny – reckless – games to be played against a crucial node of Eurasia integration.”
Unfortunately, that means Iran will be allowed to continue on a path to hegemony over the Islamic world, especially if their main competitor, Saudi Arabia, collapses. FWIW, Nostradamus prophecies of WWIII indicate Iranian leadership of the Islamic world during the war.
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