Russian Avangard system already operational in 2019. "Immune from any missile defense"

The first regiment equipped with the Avangard system that includes an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will enter service in 2019, reports the Russian agency Tas.

At the start of operations, the regiment will have two launch systems that will reach 6 to allow the full operation of the military unit, the Missile Division based in the Orenburg region, in the southern Urals.

The Avangard is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system equipped with a hypersonic scroll vehicle. According to open sources, the "revolutionary" weapon was developed by the Research and Production Association of Machine-Building and has been tested since 2004. The missile vehicle is capable of flying at hypersonic speed in the dense layers of the atmosphere, maneuvering its flight path and its altitude manages to break any anti-missile defense, at least so the Russian propaganda would have you believe.

The hypersonic warhead "Avangard" - code name 15Yu71 - was born from the research and development project number 4202, the completion of which was carried out by a team of specialists coordinated by the chief engineer Pavel Sudyukov, part of a detachment of the Military Corporation and Industrial site in the city of Reutov, in the Moscow oblast, 12 km east of the capital.

Russian Avangard system already operational in 2019. "Immune from any missile defense"