OREANDA-NEWS  The Avangard missile system with a guided combat unit is invulnerable to detection by radar stations due to the plasma forming around its shell during flight. About the key feature of the Russian Lente complex.<url>" was told by military expert, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov.

Earlier, the publication of the British edition of the Daily Express reported on the combat capabilities of the Avangard. They noted that the complex with a controlled combat unit, which Russia is actively deploying, makes the military in the West nervous.

Knutov recalled that the Avangard is a hypersonic unit capable of moving at a speed of Mach 27, that is, a speed 27 times faster than the speed of sound.

"Moreover, he can maneuver in flight. How this happens is a mystery, because at a speed of Mach 27, its shell is covered with plasma, because too high friction in contact with air forms plasma. Plasma has the property of absorbing electromagnetic rays. Therefore, it is impossible to detect such a block using radar stations. Considering that it does not fly along a ballistic trajectory, but maneuvers in flight, no station can detect it and take it for escort," the specialist said.

He stressed that "no country in the world has anything like this."