MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Warheads mounted on Russia’s Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missiles withstand heat equal to the temperature on the Sun’s surface, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
"The entire world talks about the Oreshnik. And what are the materials? The temperature on these warheads corresponds to the temperature of the Sun, the temperature on the Sun’s surface," Putin said at a plenary session of the Forum of Future Technologies.
"We understand this. We have been developing systems of the boost-glide vehicle that we called Avangard since the 1980s. It features comparable temperatures, slightly less than on the Sun’s surface," the head of state said.
Russian scientists thought about creating such systems back in the late 1980s, Putin recalled. "But they could not because there were no materials. That was the problem. It flies and melts like an ice cream. And the control signal goes through," the Russian president explained, stressing that the innovations "are the result of the work on new materials."