Russia successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic glider warhead

Russia has successfully tested its advanced hypersonic glider warhead, also known as object 4202, Russian newspaper Izvestiya reported Friday.

"It's the first totally completed test of the warhead capable of reaching the speed of 7 km/second on the maximum altitude," it said.

The warhead was fired on Tuesday from the Dombarovsky area in Russia's western Orenburg region to the Far Eastern Kamchatka's firing field of Kura.

According to the newspaper, the hypersonic warhead is designed to be installed to replace conventional warheads on promising intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Before entering the dense layers of the atmosphere, the warhead completes a composite maneuver so that missile defense facilities won't be able to intercept it, the newspaper said. Endi