MOSCOW, July 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (ARF) has started testing of a "smart bullet" in a guided flight regime, ARF Deputy Director General Vitaly Davydov told TASS in an interview.

"The work in this direction continues. The stages of the product’s design and experimental development in an unguided regime have been completed, and the guided flight tests have started", he said.

ARF had planned to test a "smart bullet" that is designed to hit targets at a distance of up to 10 kilometers, as early as last year.