Footage shows the weapon – which is delivered to targets at 27 times the speed of sound – being installed in an underground launch silo in the Orenburg region, southwest Russia, near the Kazakhstan border.
The missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle is fired outside the earth’s atmosphere before striking any target in the world in less than 30 minutes, claims Moscow.
Like other Russian hypersonic missile systems, Vladimir Putin claims the West has no means to stop it.
Today’s emplacement of the 20,000mph (32,187kmh) Avangard beast follows three consecutive days in which Putin has showcased the deployment of new Yars nuclear missiles in Kaluga and Tver regions.
The Kremlin revealed Putin had spent all of Friday with his military commanders in discussions over the war in Ukraine.
The day saw the unleashing of dozens of missiles on Ukraine – many of which were successfully shot down by Kyiv’s air defences.
Putin demanded ideas from his commanders including General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin – who is in overall command of the Russian offensive.
The president was accompanied by defense minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov, both of whom are rumored to have been left out of the war.
Russia has put a deadly new Avangard hypersonic missile system into combat service, capping
Putin said: ‘Comrade officers, we will listen to commanders in each operational area today, and I would like to hear your suggestions on our immediate and medium-term actions.
‘It is the first time in ten months that Putin, who has not yet visited the front, unlike Volodymyr Zelensky, has shown close involvement in its high command.
It is the first known visit by Putin to the joint headquarters of the troops.
His visit comes amid fresh questions about his health with reports that he is running out of missiles and that he is preparing a New Year’s offensive to try to seize Kyiv once more.
Putin has previously claimed that the Avangard strikes “like a meteorite” and is “invincible”, unstoppable by any defense system.
It has boasted: ‘The Avangard is invulnerable to interception by any existing and prospective missile defense means of the potential adversary.’
This week, the Yars and Avangard missile display came as Russia celebrates its annual Strategic Missile Forces Day today.
