As the Russian government claims that a new hypersonic boost glide vehicle called Avangard successfully completed a final pre-deployment flight test on Dec. 26, U.S. Defense Department officials are ...
Despite low pay, backward infrastructure and deepening suspicions, Russian scientists helped test and deploy the first hypersonic glide vehicle in late 2019. Credit: Kremlin Press Center The ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on 26 December 2018 announced a successful initial all-up flight test of the Avangard (Vanguard) hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). An UR-100N UTTH ICBM system equipped ...
Key point: Why have a regular missile, when you can have a faster hypersonic one that is harder to shoot down? That is the logic behind Russia’s impressive Avangard missile. Russian President Vladimir ...