“If you calculate how much it cost them, say, a well-known missile defense system, yes, and one of the main components of overcoming missile defense on our side is Avangard... Well, they are simply incomparable values,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to Putin, the experience with the development of the Russian missile “showed how to act.”

Earlier, Putin said that the level of modern weapons and equipment in Russia's strategic nuclear forces had been increased to 95%.

The President added that in the maritime component these indicators have been brought to almost 100%.

The President also stated in his message to the Federal Assembly that the first Sarmat missiles have already been delivered to the Russian troops.