MOSCOW, March 1./TASS/. The testing of advanced Avangard strategic missile complexes with glide vehicles has been finished, Russia’s Strategic Missile Force Commander Sergei Karakayev said on Thursday.

"Creating the strategic missile system Avangard, equipped with a glide vehicle, has become a no less efficient response to the deployment of the American anti-missile defenses. Its testing has been successfully completed," he said.