Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has overseen a test of a new hypersonic missile, declaring that the weapon is impossible to intercept and will guarantee the country's security over the coming decades.
Speaking to Russia's military top brass on Wednesday after watching the live feed of the launch of the Avangard system from the defence ministry's control room, Putin said the test was a "great success" and an "excellent New Year's gift to the nation".
According to the Kremlin, the missile was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains and hit its target on a test site in Kamchatka, about 6,000km away.
[...] When first presenting it, the Russian president said the new missile system has an intercontinental range and can fly in the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound, bypassing the enemy's missile defence. He emphasised that no other country currently has hypersonic weapons.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday December 29 2018, @08:35AM
Unfortunately modern wars are fought with currency, materials, wombs, climate, propaganda, soon nanotech and who knows what else (my bet is on radio interference with brain functions). This is why entities branding themselves pacifist behave as psycopaths in other contexts without substantial issues.
But, maybe at some levels national borders still have meaning and the display of force isn't mere choreography.
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