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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday it had shown the country's new Avangard nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors for the first time, a move Moscow said showed a key arms control treaty was still effective.
Russia is due to deploy next month the Avangard system, a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to sit atop an intercontinental ballistic missile, one of several new types of weapons touted by President Vladimir Putin as ahead of their time.
The Defence Ministry said a group of visiting U.S. arms inspectors had been shown the Avangard system from Nov. 24-26 under the auspices of the New START treaty, which came into effect in 2011.
The treaty limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the worlds two biggest nuclear powers can deploy to no more than 1,550 each.
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I have very big missile. Bigger than yours Trump. - V. Putin.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)knowing whether it is true or not.
The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)...if they're showing us this "cutting edge" technology now, they probably have something even more advanced coming down the pike--or already in place.
That's not evil, it's smart.