00:00Sergei Viktorovich, many congratulations.
00:07I wish you continued success and in this particular regard.
00:12Work to improve our strategic deterrence forces was officially resumed in Russia
00:18and these efforts have been ongoing without interruption since the early years of the 2000s.
00:24We had many other things on our minds at that point in time, to be perfectly honest.
00:29Russia was going through a very difficult and challenging period in the course of its long history,
00:34but after the United States decided to unilaterally withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile treaty,
00:39back in the year 2002, we found ourselves compelled, and I want to emphasize this,
00:45we were truly forced to give serious consideration to the task of ensuring our strategic security
00:49in light of a new global reality and the pressing need to maintain a stable, strategic balance of power,
00:56a true parity between us.
00:59That is precisely the reason why, yet once again,
01:04I wish to emphasize that Russia has initiated the development of advanced systems
01:09that have no global counterparts,
01:12ensuring the guaranteed penetration of all existing and future missile defense systems.
01:17We are currently implementing the program for the development of our nuclear forces,
01:22which was adopted in this regard, in a series of stages.
01:26Back in the year 2004, development work officially commenced on the avant-garde intercontinental ballistic missile system.
01:35That specific system has been actively deployed on combat duty ever since the year 2019.
01:40Following that, we officially introduced the Kinjal,
01:43which is a highly advanced medium-range air-launched hypersonic missile,
01:46and it has been in active service with our military forces since the year 2017.
01:51It is already being deployed and utilized within this special military operation,
01:54but extensive efforts to further refine and enhance its capabilities,
01:57including a dedicated focus on boosting its precision when used in a non-nuclear configuration,
02:02are currently still underway.
02:04Beginning as of the year 2025,
02:07the Oreshnik ground-launched medium-range ballistic missile system,
02:10which is capable of being outfitted with nuclear warheads,
02:13has officially been placed into active full-scale combat duty status.
02:18Work is nearing completion on two systems featuring compact nuclear propulsion,
02:24the unique Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle,
02:28and the unique Uber-Burevestnik global range cruise missile,
02:33which is now the Sarmat.
02:40We began work on it in 2011.
02:43In 2018, this work on the advantages of new promising missile systems,
02:48including the Sarmat, were publicly announced.
02:51Let me remind you what was discussed then
02:53and what the advantages of our newest system are.
03:02To begin with, this is the most powerful missile system in the world,
03:06not inferior in its destructive capacity to the Voivoda system currently in our service,
03:12which, as was just stated, remains of Soviet design.
03:15The total power of its delivered warhead is more than four times greater
03:20than the power of any of the most powerful western counterparts currently in existence.
03:28Secondly, and most importantly, the missile can follow not only a ballistic,
03:33but also a suborbital trajectory,
03:35which, in this third place, provides us with an impressive operational range
03:40extending to well over 35,000 kilometers,
03:42while at the same time offering a two-fold increase in overall accuracy.
03:46And, last but certainly not least, the unique capability to effectively bypass
03:49and overcome all currently existing, as well as any future missile defense systems.
03:55By the end of this year, the Sarmat system will indeed be officially placed into active combat duty.
04:02I wish to offer my sincere congratulations to the Ministry of Defense,
04:05all of the dedicated employees, the diligent researchers,
04:07the highly skilled engineers, and the capable production managers
04:09who are an integral part of the entire defense industrial complex,
04:12the principal prime contractors,
04:13and the extensive, thousand-strong cooperative network of collaborators
04:16on the occasion of this truly major event and its undeniable significant success.
04:20I extend my profound gratitude for your tireless work
04:22in consistently strengthening the defense capability of the Russian Federation.
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