India has successfully conducted its first test of a long-range hypersonic missile, marking a significant milestone in its ...

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the "Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10:00 Moscow time on 27 December", calling it a "landmark event". Rocket mystery: What weapon was ...

REUTOV /Moscow Region/, January 31. /TASS/. Russia’s Research and Production Association of Machine-Building (part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation) is working on extending the service life ...

The Zircon, alongside the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, forms the core of Russia’s hypersonic strategy, which aims to ...

The Avangard is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system equipped with a hypersonic boost-glide vehicle. According to open sources, the breakthrough weapon was developed by the ...

Announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018, the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle was Russia's answer to the development of new-gen weapons and missile defense systems ...

Along with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle which entered combat duty in 2019, the Zircon forms the centrepiece of Russia's hypersonic arsenal. Russia sees the weapons as a way to pierce ...

At that point, the Avangard becomes what’s known as a hypersonic glide vehicle. These are craft which utilize the boost-glide principle, where a rocket-launched craft “skips” across the edge ...

A Russian Navy frigate equipped with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles has conducted drills in the English Channel and is carrying out tasks in the Atla ...

A Russian Navy frigate, equipped with advanced Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, has completed a passage through the English ...

This is the first long-distance voyage of the multipurpose frigate since it was accepted into the Russian Navy in December ...