“We will continue to strive to make our army and navy more and more modern, which means to strengthen the potential of strategic forces, to send the latest types of weapons and equipment, including laser, hypersonic systems, and high-precision systems to all types and types of troops,” he said during a speech at a gala evening in honor of Defender of the Fatherland Day.
Many of Russia's weapons have no analogues in the world, Putin recalled.
“At the same time, according to a number of promising samples, and this is actually the weapon of the future, we have already moved from the testing phase to putting them on alert on a constant alert. This, as I already said, means that the defense capability and security of Russia are reliably ensured in the long term, ”the head of state added.
The President emphasized that the most solid foundation of the Russian Armed Forces has always been and remains courageous and loyal to the homeland people - “real patriots, soldiers and sergeants”, the officer corps of the country.
In December 2019, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reported to Russian leader Vladimir Putin about the deployment of a missile system with the Avangard hypersonic unit on alert.
During a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense, Putin said that Russia is ahead of other countries in terms of the development of advanced weapons - no one else has hypersonic weapons. The troops are already complexes "Dagger" and "Relight".
Also, according to plans, work is underway on the Sarmat, Zircon and Petrel missiles.