{"id":252858,"date":"2025-10-26T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252858\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:53:13","slug":"russia-has-tested-a-new-nuclear-capable-missile-putin-and-top-general-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252858\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin and top general say"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW, Russia — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its military, President Vladimir Putin claimed in remarks released on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Putin, dressed in camouflage fatigues, could be seen meeting with senior Russian military figures, according to a video released by the Kremlin. The footage showed Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia\u2019s chief of general staff, telling the Russian leader that the Burevestnik covered 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) in a key test Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Gerasimov said the Burevestnik, or Storm Petrel in Russian, spent 15 hours in the air, adding \u201cthat\u2019s not the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to determine the possible uses and begin preparing the infrastructure for deploying these weapons to our armed forces,\u201d Putin told Gerasimov in the video and instructed him to work on the missile\u2019s final tests. Putin also claimed it was invulnerable to current and future missile defenses, due to its almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight path.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Putin directed drills of Russia\u2019s strategic nuclear forces<\/a> that featured practice missile launches. The exercise came as his planned summit on Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump was put on hold.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin said that the maneuvers involved all parts of Moscow\u2019s nuclear triad, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that were test-fired from launch facilities in northwestern Russia and a submarine in the Barents Sea. The drills also involved Tu-95 strategic bombers firing long-range cruise missiles.<\/p>\n

The exercise tested the skills of military command structures, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW, Russia — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[137495,966,4,450,793,451,1576,3,111,452,453,965],"class_list":["post-252858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-137495","tag-article","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}