Putins INVINCIBLE hypersonic missile revealed
in chilling footage VLADIMIR Putin answered his critics today
by showing off Russias new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. Ominous footage shows the invincible
hypersonic weapon emerging from an underground silo, pausing as if hovering above the ground,
and then speeding away in a cloud of white smoke. The launch was at the snow-covered Plesetsk
spaceport in northern Russia. It comes amid the greatest tension between
Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War with tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions
over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Britain.
The new launch is shown on a 23-second video
from the Russian Defence Ministry. The ICBM was fired for the second time since
tests began last December, say Moscow officials. "This new test at the Plesetsk spaceport confirmed
its characteristics during the pre-launch and initial flight phases," the ministry said
in a statement. Putin said during his annual state of the
nation parliamentary address this month that Russia had begun actively testing the Sarmat
known to NATO as the SS-X-32 SNOWFLAKE.
It is expected to go operational in 2021 with
the the Uzhur-based strategic missile force division. At least 500 American ABM missiles would be
needed to intercept the warhead, according to Viktor Bondarev, chairman of Russian senates
Defence and Security Committee. "That is the conclusion of Western experts,
he claimed. US officials have sounded a growing alarm
about the potential threat from hypersonic weapons those that can travel at five
times the speed of sound or more..
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