MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The speed of the prospective Russian weapons is such as to allow their carriers to be placed in neutral waters, there is no need for them to be based close to this state or other, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
The President's Address to the Federal Assembly offers U.S. partners to work out such systems' speed and range of potential use, Putin told Russian news agencies and print media on Wednesday.
"There is also another parameter, specialists need to understand this. I did not say it but I can say it to you here now for the first time. They should look at where carriers will be placed, I said that these are sea-based carriers: submarines or surface ships. And these can be set at such speeds and at such a range - there is no need for them to be in territorial waters or even in a special economic zone of a certain state. In neutral waters, simply in the ocean," Putin said.
"Not has prohibited this, military ships and submarines from moving there," Putin said.