MOSCOW, (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be outfitted with hypersonic atomic strike weapons and submerged atomic automatons, which the protection service said were in their last period of testing.
Putin, who says he doesn't need a weapons contest, has regularly talked about another age of Russian atomic weapons that he says are unmatched and can hit anyplace on the planet. Some Western specialists have addressed how exceptional they are.
The weapons, some of which still can't seem to be conveyed, incorporate the Poseidon submerged atomic automaton, intended to be conveyed by submarines, and the Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic voyage rocket, which can be sent on surface boats.
The blend of speed, mobility and elevation of hypersonic rockets, equipped for going at in excess of multiple times the speed of sound, makes them hard to track and catch.
Talking in St Petersburg at a yearly maritime procession that grandstands Russia's best ships, atomic submarines and maritime aeronautics, Putin said the naval force's capacities were developing and it would get 40 new vessels this year.
He didn't indicate when it would get new hypersonic weapons, however recommended that day was moving nearer.
"The boundless arrangement of cutting edge advanced innovations that have no equivalents on the planet, including hypersonic strike frameworks and submerged automatons, will give the armada remarkable focal points and expanded battle abilities," Putin said.
In a different articulation discharged through Russian news offices, the resistance service said testing of the Belgorod, the main submarine equipped for conveying the Poseidon drones, was in progress and testing of the weapons frameworks was approaching fruition.
"Work is in effect effectively finished to make current weapons frameworks for the Navy," it was refered to as saying.
Putin a year ago took steps to send hypersonic rockets on boats and submarines that could sneak outside U.S. regional waters if the United States moved to convey middle of the road go atomic weapons in Europe.
Washington has not conveyed such rockets in Europe, however Moscow is concerned it may.
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