MOSCOW. Feb 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is 10-15 years ahead of its rivals in the sphere of strategic nuclear armaments, Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology Corporation General Designer Yuri Solomonov said at Thursday hearings at the Federation Council.
"Strategic nuclear weapons developed by the Russian defense sector are 10-15 years ahead of what the West or the East may do," he said.
A lot has been done in Russia in the past decade to develop the strategic nuclear forces, Solomonov said.
"We fully accomplished our mission in 2011: the land-based Topol-M strategic rocket was developed and put into service in two modifications together with the Yars rocket system - the first solid-fuel rocket with a splitting warhead. Test flights of the sea-based Bulava rocket are over," he said.