In Russia's Smolensk region, air defense forces were activated overnight on January 4 in response to the detection of drones.

Second Avangard hypersonic missile regiment to go on combat alert by 2023 MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. The first regiment of strategic missile systems with the Avangard boost-glide vehicle will go ...

MOSCOW, July 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Strategic Missile Force is preparing a position area for accepting the Avangard hypersonic missile system for service as part of the efforts to strengthen the ...

On the night of January 4, the Smolensk region of Russia was restless due to a raid by attack drones. The Avangard plant, which is involved in the production of missiles for the Russian Armed Forces, ...

He said: "As of today, fifth-generation Yars and Avangard missile systems have been introduced in the Strategic Missile Forces. Terrifying nuclear map shows areas where 75% would die if WW3 broke ...

Wednesday's test involved launching an Avangard missile from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains to hit a practice target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of ...

The range of this missile is between 500 km and 5000 km – enabling it to target most of Europe ... As of December 2023, Russia also deployed the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), operated by ...

He announced: "As of today, fifth-generation Yars and Avangard missile systems have been introduced in the Strategic Missile Forces." Adding to this, he stated: "Work continues on placing the ...

Avangard is said to be capable of flying 27 times the speed of sound. Russia's Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday it had shown the country's new Avangard nuclear missile system to US inspectors ...

But this rather anticlimactic launch was to be expected, as the Avangard isn’t a complete missile system, but simply the payload which is launched atop a Soviet-era UR-100UTTKh ICBM.

The other two weapons are the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle and Poseidon torpedo. Speaking on the Burevestnik missile in 2018, Putin said the "low-flying, stealth cruise missile with a nuclear ...