Russia has its own hypersonic missiles, so it did not steal any secrets of “super-duper” weapons from the United States (U.S.), Russian Presidential Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has told the media.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump told his supporters in New Hampshire that Russia allegedly received information about a US “super-duper rocket” before creating its own one.
“You know that Russia stole a super-duper rocket, those fly superfast. They stole during the Barack Obama administration. They stole classified drawings and built it,” Trump said.
In the past three years, Pentagon officials have repeatedly recognized that the U.S. was behind Russia and China in hypersonic weapons development. In December 2020, then-US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that Washington was trying to catch up.
Presidential Spokesperson Peskov added: “We have our own missile, an excellent one. It’s hard for me to say whether our missile fits in well with Mr. Trump’s term ‘super-duper.’ But it is a good missile that has no rivals in the world for now. And there is not just one.”