Russia is developing new-generation hypersonic missiles to carry out strikes from air, land, and sea, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov as saying on Monday.
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He also added that Russia has enough high-precision missiles and ammunition to fulfill all the tasks assigned to the country's armed forces.
A senior Pentagon official said in March that Russia, which sent thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it calls a special military operation, was running out of precision-guided munitions.
Russia last month announced plans to deploy its newly tested Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of mounting nuclear strikes against the United States, by fall.
he target stated by Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, is an ambitious one as Russia reported its first test launch only on Wednesday and Western military experts said more will be needed before the missile can be deployed.
The RS-28 Sarmat, more colloquially known in the West as the "Satan II," is a Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, as well as of striking targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe.
Under development by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau since 2009, the RS-28 Sarmat is intended to replace the R-36M ICBM in Russia's arsenal.
The new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday.
Col. Gen. Sergey Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military's Strategic Missile Forces, said that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.
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