© Russian Defense Ministry/TASS
The Russian Ministry of Defense has ordered an additional batch of Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, a military source with knowledge on the matter told TASS on November 12.
“As reported earlier, the first contract to produce a batch of Tsirkon was signed in the summer of 2021. An additional contract – this fall,” the unnamed source said.
The Russian news agency said that the additional contract involves several dozen missiles. The contract should be completed in 2023.
The Tsirkon, which was developed by Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya, is a maneuvering, winged cruise missile powered by a state-of-the-art scramjet engine that allows it to reach speed as high as Mach 9. It was designed to engage both naval and land targets.
The missile’s range is estimated to be 250 to 500 kilometers at low level, and up to 740 kilometers semi-ballistic trajectory. The longest possible range is 1,000 kilometers.
The high speed of the Tsirkon gives it better target-penetration characteristics than lighter subsonic cruise missiles, such as the American Tomahawk. Being twice as heavy and almost eleven times as fast as Tomahawk, the Tsirkon has more than 242 times the on-cruise kinetic energy.
The missile’s high speed also means that it cannot be intercepted by existing defense systems and its precision makes it lethal to large targets such as aircraft carriers.
Earlier this year, Admiral Gorshkov frigate of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet successfully fired a Tsirkon missile from the Barents Sea at a naval target located 1,000 kilometers away in the White Sea during a test.
The Tsirkon hypersonic missile can be launched from surface ships and submarines. Currently, NPO Mashinostroyeniya is developing a costal defense system that utilizes the state-of-the-art missile. A prototype of the system’s launcher has been already manufactured.
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Death to Putin, death to the oligarchs, and death to all traitors of the Russian world.
You sound like one of those traitors.
Why would oligarch run Russia even need weapons like this? They have no strategic goals, they have no ideological goals. They are just a competing pack of thieves that compete with some like minded pack of thieves. Why fight and die for such meaningless nonsense?
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Yes, 800 characters should be enough
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Can’t help but think if the USA had the Tsirkon they’d be ordering 800- 1000 perhaps more
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