The Avangard combat unit is capable of flying in dense layers of the atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of up to Mach 27, maneuvering along the course and altitude and overcoming any missile defense
MOSCOW, February 11. /tass/. The second regiment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) UR-100N UTTH with hypersonic combat equipment "Avangard" will take up combat duty as part of the Yasnensky compound of Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) until the end of 2022. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.
"The existing plans provide that the second regiment of "Avangards" as part of the mine launchers and the command post of the regiment of the 13th Missile Division of the Strategic Missile Forces will take up combat duty approximately in December 2022," he said.
The NPO of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation), where the Avangards are developed and manufactured, did not comment on this information to TASS.
Earlier it was reported that the first regiment of the Avangard hypersonic complexes of the Yasnensky connection of the Strategic Missile Forces (Orenburg Region), which took up combat duty at the end of 2019 as part of two mine launchers (SHPU) and a command post, was brought to the full composition of the SHPU by the end of 2021.
As Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated at the single day of military acceptance on January 20, the rearmament of the first regiment to the Avangard missile system with ICBMs equipped with hypersonic gliding cruise blocks has been completed.
The Avangard combat unit is capable of flying in dense layers of the atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of up to Mach 27 (about 32 thousand km / h), maneuvering along the course and altitude and overcoming any missile defense. The complex was first announced by the President of the Russian Federation in March 2018.
