More military embarrassment for Russia as an ICBM goes way off course and self destructs. Perhaps trying to play it off as an 'We meant to do that' moment', Putin then talks up new systems:

Mr Putin on Wednesday announced plans for deploying a new generation of strategic weapons, which some analysts said may be weapons with warheads that zigzag on their way to a target, an idea dating to the Soviet era.

The new weapons would be 'capable of hitting targets continents away at hypersonic speed, with high precision and the ability of broad manoeuvre both in terms of altitude and direction of their flight', Mr Putin said.

I'd say they got that zigzag thing pretty much nailed at this point. The pesky 'target' part may prove to be more difficult.

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