New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday announced that Moscow has started production of a nuclear-powered cruise missile, which he has asserted would be three-times faster than the speed of sound based on the current designs of the Burevestnik missile.

“I would especially like to note the unique regime of powerful ultra-small nuclear reactors of the rocket… A new generation of weapons types is already being created on the basis of such power plants. Moreover, the development of the next generation of cruise missiles with nuclear engines has begun,” Putin said at an awards ceremony for the developers of Russia’s latest military technologies—the Burevestnik missile system and the Poseidon underwater vehicle.

“Their speed will be more than three times faster than the speed of

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