{"id":6277,"date":"2019-12-28T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T08:28:42","slug":"russia-deploys-first-hypersonic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-deploys-first-hypersonic-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia deploys first hypersonic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia says its hypersonic missile is now in active service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russian military said it has deployed a hypersonic weapon, potentially setting off a new arms race.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Putin that the first missile unit equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered combat duty, the Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate you on this landmark event for the military and the entire nation,&#8221; Shoigu said later during a conference call with the top military brass.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Sergei Karakaev, the strategic missile forces chief, said that the Avangard had been put on duty with a unit in the Orenburg region in the southern Ural mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Russian president described the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle as a technological breakthrough that can fly at 27 times the speed of sound. Putin unveiled the Avangard among other prospective weapons systems in his state-of-the-nation address in March 2018 when he said&#8221; \u201cIt heads to target like a meteorite, like a fireball\u201d. The missile can carry a nuclear weapon of up to 2 megatons, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian hypersonic glide vehicle which can avoid ballistic missile defense radars is mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. Its hypersonic speed makes detection, tracking and interception extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersonic weapons fly extremely fast and can maneuver along unpredictable trajectories. The U.S., Australia and China are working on their own hypersonic missile systems, but none has reached active duty.<\/p>\n<p>The United States reportedly plans to deploy its own hypersonic weapons by 2022. China has tested its own hypersonic glide vehicle called DF-17 at a military parade in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says its hypersonic missile is now in active service The Russian military said it has deployed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[137,6,357,31,20,113],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-asia","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-missile","tag-russia","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Russia-missile.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Df","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}