Then-Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov announced in March 2018 that a contract had been signed on the serial production of Avangard hypersonic missile systems. Commander of Russia’s Strategic ...

Wednesday's test involved launching an Avangard missile from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains to hit a practice target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of ...

MOSCOW, July 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Strategic Missile Force is preparing a position area for accepting the Avangard hypersonic missile system for service as part of the efforts to strengthen the ...

But this rather anticlimactic launch was to be expected, as the Avangard isn’t a complete missile system, but simply the payload which is launched atop a Soviet-era UR-100UTTKh ICBM.

He said: "As of today, fifth-generation Yars and Avangard missile systems have been introduced in the Strategic Missile Forces. Terrifying nuclear map shows areas where 75% would die if WW3 broke ...

The Avangard plant is located there, involved in the production of solid-fuel missiles: both ballistics and for air defense systems. Avangard is part of one of Russia's largest missile-making holdings ...

Colonel General Sergey Karakayev announced that 88% of Russia's missile forces are modernized, including fifth-generation Yars and Avangard systems. "As of today, fifth-generation Yars and ...

THE CITY OF SAFONOVO, SMOLENSK REGION, ON THE MAP (PHOTO: SCREEN GOOGLE.COM/MAPS/PLACE) Additionally, the Telegram channel Exilenova+ speculated that the target could have been the Avangard JSC, a ...