The head of Russia's top missile design center said Tuesday that its latest missiles were built to survive a nuclear attack, ensuring a reliable nuclear deterrent for decades ahead.
Yuri Solomonov, the head of the Heat Technology Institute, said its Topol-M and Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles were much more resistant to an enemy's first strike than their predecessors.
"The results we have achieved allow us to say with certitude ... that we are capable of ensuring the missiles' survivability," Solomonov said in a speech before the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences.
He said that the latest Russian missiles drop their engines at a significantly lower altitude than earlier designs, making it hard for an enemy early warning system to detect the launch. "The reduction of the active phase of flight is the most radical way of dodging the enemy's weapons," he said.
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