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Lieutenant General Yudin said that the VKS will receive new aircraft with hypersonic weapons

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MOSCOW, Nov 29 - RIA Novosti. New aircraft with hypersonic weapons will be put on combat duty in aviation military units of the Aerospace Forces next year, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin, said in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

"Next year in the aviation military units of the Aerospace Forces is declared the year of flight training, and for air defense, missile defense and space forces - the year of combat duty. Also, we will have to put on combat duty promising samples of VVTS (weapons, military and special equipment - ed.), including with hypersonic weapons," he said.

Yudin clarified that within the framework of the state defense order in 2022, it is planned to purchase more than 200 units of basic weapons, military and special equipment.

Earlier it was reported that by the end of 2024, according to the plan, the VKS will receive 22 multifunctional fighters of the fifth generation Su-57, and by 2028 their number in the Russian Armed Forces will increase to 76.

Now Russia is the only country in the world with hypersonic missiles on alert or on high alert. In the Russian Armed Forces, the Dagger air complexes with a hypersonic missile are on experimental combat duty, the Zircon hypersonic missile is undergoing state tests, strategic missiles with the Avangard hypersonic planning unit are on combat duty.

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