The President noted that the uniqueness of Russia's position is that no one can intercept missiles, "the speeds are such that it is impossible to take them"
MOSCOW, December 12. /tass/. The Russian authorities have managed to do a lot in the development of the military-industrial complex and the armed forces on the basis of the restored economy of the country. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview for the film "Russia. The latest history" on the TV channel "Russia-1".
"One of the main tasks was to restore the economy on the basis of the restored economy and social sphere, because people also needed to be given the opportunity to feel a breath of clean air, to restore the military-industrial complex on this basis, to restore our scientific schools and armed forces. Indeed, we managed to do a lot in this," Putin said.
One fragment of an interview for this film was already broadcast on the Rossiya-1 TV channel in June 2020. The President of the Russian Federation noted in it that Russia and the United States have approximate parity "both in terms of carriers and in terms of the number of warheads." "Nevertheless, we are certainly leaders in our promising developments," the head of state said. According to him, Russia is also modernizing the traditional potential of weapons, introducing new complexes.
"In this sense, we can say with confidence that according to this indicator we are number one in the world today," Putin stated.
He noted that Russia needed to make plans to ensure its security in the conditions of the US withdrawal from the Anti-Missile Defense Treaty. "We did it thanks to the latest complexes, which I mentioned in 2018 (in a message to the Federal Assembly - approx. TASS)," Putin said. According to him, no one can intercept these missiles today, "the speeds are such that it is impossible to take them," and this is the uniqueness of Russia's current position.
The Head of State noted that in the future, the world's leading military powers will also possess hypersonic weapons. "It will appear. But I think that we will be able to pleasantly surprise our partners by the fact that when they have these weapons, with a high degree of probability we will have a means of combating these weapons," the president said.
