Vladimir Putin touts successful ‘final test’ for hypersonic missile

By Joel Gehrke

Published December 26, 2018 9:22pm ET

Vladimir Putin touts successful ‘final test’ for hypersonic missile — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, background center, and special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, right, talk to each other as they come to oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. | (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia has won the international race to develop a hypersonic cruise missile, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“This is a serious event,” Putin said at a year-end meeting of government officials. “We are the first to have a strategic weapon of a new kind, enabling us to provide for the effective defense of our state and people for decades to come.”

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