Putin Stresses New Physical Principles and Artificial Intelligence

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday wrapped up three days of meetings in Sochi with the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry, the military, and defense industry, focused on weapons based on new physical principles. “Developing unique laser, hypersonic, kinetic and other types of weapons was a huge breakthrough in military technology for Russia. It has significantly, many-fold boosted the capacity of the Russian Armed Forces ensuring a high level of Russian military security for many years and even decades to come and it helped strengthen our strategic parity,” he said, according to the Kremlin transcript. “The development and production of these effective and innovative hi-tech weapons is a key development vector for our Armed Forces.”