New Russian hardware does not change US strategy: Mattis

Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent boasts of a new generation of high-tech weaponry have not changed America's strategic calculus, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday. Putin on March 1 showed videos and described several new weapons Russia is developing, including a hypersonic missile that flies many times quicker than sound and is designed to evade missile defence systems by changing trajectory mid-flight. Speaking to reporters as he travelled to Oman, Mattis said that nothing Putin showed off changes anything from the Pentagon's perspective.

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