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Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Herbert Efremov, the creator of the Avangard hypersonic missile system, the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First Call with swords.
As reported on the Kremlin website, the head of the Russian Federation held an online meeting with the weapons developer on September 19. Efremov – rocket and space and rocket technology designer, as well as former CEO, honorary general designer, and scientific advisor to NPO Mashinostroenie (scroll to the bottom to see the video).
Putin compared Efremov to the Ukrainian designer of the USSR’s rocket and space systems, Sergei Korolev, and called his award “combat.”
As the Russian president said, in December 2019, the first strategic missile regiment equipped with the Avangard system was put on alert.
“In modern conditions in our country, this is comparable to the implementation of nuclear and missile projects of the Soviet Union, which was carried out by the prominent Soviet scientists Kurchatov and Korolev.
It is today that I signed a decree on the granting of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First Called with swords. You are totally worthy of this essentially combat award. She is with swords, because her work and all her colleagues, from general designers to workers, is like a feat. “ – Putin said to Efremov.
Let us remind you that Putin also said that “no one else in the world has weapons like Avangard.”
Avangard is a Russian strategic missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile.
According to Putin, the Avangard system with a hypersonic maneuvering unit develops a speed 27 times the speed of sound, which has become a new type of strategic weapon.
Be careful, the video contains propaganda!
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, US President Donald Trump accused Russia of stealing hypersonic weapons technology.
