Putin: Russia has the best weapons in terms of technology and modernity

Moscow-Sana

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was forced to produce hypersonic weapons after the United States withdrew from the missile defense agreement.

"The withdrawal of the United States from the missile defense agreement in 2002 prompted Russia to develop hypersonic weapons," Sputnik quoted Putin as saying during a meeting with the Director General of the Russian Military Equipment Production Company Herbert Yefremov, adding: "We must produce these weapons in response to the US deployment of systems. Missile defense, which would affect our nuclear capabilities in the future.

In addition, President Putin announced in a statement on the occasion of the Russian Military Industry Workers' Day that Russia now possesses the best types of weapons in terms of technology, modernity, strength, ability, speed and accuracy to be able to protect the country from any external aggressions.

Putin said, "Over the past decades, we have been pursuing what is being done in the field of atomic and nuclear weapons, then long-range strategic aircraft, and then intercontinental missile technologies, but today we are in the process of producing and developing weapons."

Putin praised the work of the military industrialists on the production of the hypersonic "Avangard" missile, saying that "the importance of realizing and realizing this project for our country in the current circumstances parallels without any doubt the Soviet Union's realization of the nuclear and missile project."