SpaceWar.com reports: “Russian President Vladimir Putin says the new Oreshnik hypersonic missile used against Ukraine this week will go into serial production and is ‘ready to be used’ again if necessary.

Speaking on Friday during a televised meeting with members of his Security Council, defense industry officials and missile developers, the Russian leader said the Oreshnik cannot be stopped or intercepted and will be deployed as part of the country’s Strategic Missile Forces.

‘We need to launch serial production,’ he said, according to the state-run TASS news agency. ‘Let’s say that the decision has been made that the system will go into serial production. Basically, it has already happened.’

Putin added, ‘we have a stock of such systems ready to be used’ if needed.

The comments came a day after the missile was ‘successfully’ tested in a strike against a Ukrainian aerospace plant in the first use of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile by Russia during its 33-month-old invasion of its neighbor…”