Vladimir Putin has tested an unstoppable weapon doomsday weapon that travels at 20 at times the speed of sound and can strike a target anywhere on Earth ‘like a meteorite, like a fireball’.
The Kremlin unveiled a number of terrifying cutting-edge weapons yesterday during a scary event in which President Putin warned his enemies that they would need to ‘listen to us now’.
One of these is a nuclear missile called Avangard which is capable of making sharp twists and turns on its way to targets, meaning it’s ‘absolutely invulnerable to any missile defence system’.
Russia also confirmed it’s been testing a nuclear missile known as ‘Satan II’, which is said to be so powerful it could destroy an area the size of France.
With a touch of dark humour, Putin invited Russians to join a Defense Ministry contest to name some of the weapons.
We’d like to enter with our own suggestion for the unstoppable Avangard: Bride of Satan.
Putin unveiled the stunning catalogue of apocalypse machines in his annual state-of-the-nation speech, saying that Russia had to build them to counter the potential threat posed by the US missile defence system.
It wasn’t immediately possible to assess whether the weapons could do what Putin said or how ready they are for deployment, but they would represent a major technological breakthrough that could dramatically bolster Russia’s military capability, boost its global position and trigger a new arms race.
His address was accompanied by videos and computer simulations of the new weapons, shown on giant screens at a conference hall near the Kremlin. The audience of senior officials and lawmakers broke into applause, giving him a standing ovation at one point.
‘No one else in the world has anything like that,’ Putin said.
‘It may appear someday, but by that time, we will develop something new.’
Putin said his military scientists a high-speed underwater drone which also has an ‘intercontinental’ range and is capable of slamming a nuclear warhead into both aircraft carriers and coastal facilities.
It can travel at such speed and depth that is many times faster than any other vessel and is immune to being intercepted by the enemy, he added.
America seemed unimpressed by Vlad’s willy-waving.
The White House said Putin confirmed what the US has already known: Russia has been developing ‘destabilizing weapons systems for over a decade in direct violations of its treaty obligations’.
Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Donald Trump understands the threats and that America is ‘moving forward to modernize our nuclear arsenal and ensure our capabilities are unmatched’.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White also said the Defense Department wasn’t surprised, adding that the US military is prepared to defend the nation.
White told Pentagon reporters that US missile defence has never been about Russia.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said it was ‘unfortunate’ to watch an animation depicting ‘a nuclear attack on the United States’ that accompanied Putin’s speech, calling the video ‘cheesy’ and adding that ‘we don’t think it’s responsible’.
Robert Schmucker, a rocket scientist at the Technical University of Munich, voiced scepticism about Putin’s statement, saying in an interview that building nuclear-powered cruise missiles, in particular, would be technically difficult and basically pointless.
‘Why make something complicated when you can make it easy?’ he said, adding that he also doubts that Russia has succeeded in building hypersonic missiles.
Tom Plant, director of proliferation and nuclear policy at the defence think-tank RUSI, also said he was not sure how much of the announcement to believe.
‘The thing that sounds mad, the nuclear-propulsion thing, is potentially feasible,’ he said, adding: ‘I think it’s insane.’
‘Russia already has a ton of systems that can threaten and overwhelm US missile defences,’ he added.
Putin’s announcement reflects his country’s concern that the U.S. missile shield could grow powerful enough to become a game-changer.
‘The Russians have a genuine worry from their perspective about where U.S. missile defence might go,’ Plant said.
‘So it totally makes sense for them to try and find ways to defeat not what it is now, but what it may become.’
Putin said that Russia also tested a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile, called Sarmat, which can fly over both the North and the South poles to reach any target.
He said it can carry more warheads than the world’s heaviest ICBM, the Soviet-designed missile known in the West as Satan.
To complete the list, he mentioned a smaller hypersonic missile that is already operational and has a range of more than 1,250 miles and a new laser weapon.
Putin emphasized that the new weapons were designed in full compliance to the U.S.-Russian arms control agreements, adding that Russian military experts and diplomats would be ready to discuss new weapons systems with their U.S. counterparts.
‘We aren’t threatening anyone, we aren’t going to attack anyone, we aren’t going to take anything from anyone,” he said. “The growing Russian military power will guarantee global peace.’
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