Russia tests new ‘hypersonic glide vehicle’ capable of breaching missile defences and launching nuclear warheads

Friday, April 22, 2016
By Paul Martin

Russia carried out tests for hypersonic cruise vehicle for missiles
Hypersonic vehicle is reportedly designed to breach missile defences
State media claims tests were carried out near Khazakstan on Tuesday

By SARA MALM
DailyMail.com
22 April 2016

Russia has reportedly tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle designed to breach missile defences and deliver nuclear warheads beyond enemy lines, state media has claimed

The test of the hypersonic cruise vehicle was reportedly carried out using a strategic ballistic missile in Orenburg, near the border to Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.

This follows reports that Vladimir Putin’s armed forces currently have the highest number of attack submarines patrolling the Scottish and Scandinavian coastlines since the Cold War.

The government-funded news website reported that Russian Strategic Missile Forces’s test of the hypersonic cruise vehicle was successful, citing news agency Interfax.

The test launch used an RS-18A strategic ballistic missile (UR-100N, NATO designation SS-19 Stiletto), the website said.

This comes as Putin boosts its fleet of attack submarines patrolling the coasts of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, a US Navy chief has said.

Adm Mark Ferguson, the US Navy’s top commander in Europe, said that patrols had increased by almost 50 per cent in the past year, citing a Russian Navy official.

‘For the period from January 2014 to March 2015 the intensity of patrols by submarines has risen by almost 50 percent as compared to 2013,’ says Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said in April last year.

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