{"id":390823,"date":"2018-12-28T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hypersonic-avangard-impossible-to-intercept\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T12:51:31","slug":"hypersonic-avangard-impossible-to-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hypersonic-avangard-impossible-to-intercept\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic Avangard impossible to intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia&#8217;s latest strategic weapon can travel 27 times faster than the speed of sound, making it impossible to intercept by missile defense systems, a senior Russian official has announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new weapon, referred to as Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, &#8220;essentially makes missile defenses useless,&#8221; said Russia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov as cited in state-owned Zvezda TV channel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest tests have shown that it has reached speeds close to\u00a030 Machs. Practically at\u00a0these speeds, no anti-missile can knock it down,\u201d Borisov added.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke a day after\u00a0President Vladimir Putin oversaw what he hailed as a decisively successful test of\u00a0the Avangard and\u00a0a reliable guarantee of Russia\u2019s security for\u00a0decades to\u00a0come.<\/p>\n<p>Putin further said the new hypersonic missile system, which he added can evade US ballistic missile defenses, will be deployed in 2019 as part of Russia&#8217;s focus on advancing its defense&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/28\/584180\/Russia-deputy-Prime-Minister-Yuri-Borisov-strategic-missile-Avangard-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-US-missile-defenses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s latest strategic weapon can travel 27 times faster than the speed of sound, making it impossible to intercept by missile defense systems, a senior Russian official has announced. The new weapon, referred to as Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, &#8220;essentially makes missile defenses useless,&#8221; said Russia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov as cited in state-owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}