The Russian Federation will continue to pay increased attention to the development of the Armed Forces. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 21 at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"We have always paid, and will continue to pay increased attention to the development of the Armed Forces and the strengthening of Russia's defense capability," the head of state said.
According to Putin, 2021 was an extraordinary year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it is fundamentally important that in difficult conditions, the Russian military clearly and without failures completed all tasks.
"The work on large-scale modernization of the army and navy was continued. As a result, the share of modern weapons in the troops exceeded 71%, and in the strategic nuclear forces — 89%," the President said.
Some of the newest types of weapons, including the Avangard and Dagger complexes, have been put on combat duty, he stressed.
In 2022, it is necessary to continue the planned and balanced equipping of Russian troops with modern weapons, he concluded.
December 17 Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Sergey Karakaev spoke about Russia's development of new hypersonic strategic complexes that will replace the Avangard units when the United States finds means of countering them.
On December 16, military expert Dmitry Kornev told Izvestia that the Zircon hypersonic missile could indeed be put into service in 2022. So he commented on the test launch of a missile from the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" on a coastal target.
On November 29, Admiral Gorshkov performed a new test launch of the Zircon hypersonic missile from the White Sea at a range of more than 400 km. Admiral Gorshkov carried out the previous launch of the Zircon rocket on November 18 at a sea target from the White Sea. The target was hit by a direct hit.
On November 3, the President of Russia announced that hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will begin to arrive in the Navy from next year.
