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Russia will conduct approximately a dozen more launches of the latest Zircon hypersonic missile as part of state tests, TASS reported citing its own sources in the military-industrial complex.
“Until the completion of state tests of the Zircon complex, it is planned to carry out about a dozen more launches of hypersonic missiles from two carriers,” the source said.
According to him, the launch tests will take place in 2020-2021.
“About 7-8 launches are planned from the [Project 22350] Admiral Gorshkov frigate, they will hit land and sea targets, and 2-3 launches will be carried out from the [Project 885 Yasen-class] Severodvinsk nuclear submarine, at least one of them from underwater position,” the source said.
NPO Mashinostroyeniya (part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation) which, according to media reports, developed the Zircon rocket, did not comment on the information provided by the source.
The development of the Zircon rocket has been underway since 2011, and flight tests have been conducted since 2015.
The missile will be used to destroy enemy surface ships equipped with anti-aircraft and missile defense systems that can effectively intercept modern supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. The first tests of the Zircon rocket by firing at a target located on the shore took place in January 2020.
During these tests, the missile was launched from the frigate Admiral Gorshkov and hit a coastal target at a distance of 500 kilometers.
The technical details about the hypersonic missile have not yet been disclosed. Presumably, the Zircon is a two-stage rocket.
The first stage of the missile is equipped with a solid propellant rocket engine, and the second – ramjet. The ammunition range is up to 600 kilometers. The rocket is capable of speeds up to Mach 9.
The Zircon missile can be launched from standard launchers of the VLS (Vertical Launching System) 3C-14, that is, the same as those used for the Kalibr and Onyx cruise missiles. In the future, Zircon can be armed on all modern ships and submarines with the VLS.
As another TASS source in the military-industrial complex said earlier, it is planned to complete the state tests of Zircon in 2021, and to commission the missile into service in 2022.
Just days earlier, the National Interest wrote that the Zircon is quite a threat to the US Navy’s fleet, regardless if its nuclear or not.
“The Zircon hypersonic missile is alleged to be a variant of Russia’s P-880 Onyx. At Mach 2.9, the Onyx is fast, but nowhere near as fast as the Zircon, which is propelled to hypersonic speeds—in excess of Mach 5. The Zircon has a two-stage propellant system that uses a solid-fuel propellant to bring it up to speed, then is powered by a scramjet combustion engine.
Launching submarine-based hypersonic missiles is a potent ability. Submarines can stay underwater for weeks or months, undetected and protected. Though the Zircon is thought to be armed with conventional explosives, it hardly matters.
Traveling in the Mach 5+ range generates so much kinetic energy that even a concrete-filled warhead would create a massive explosion if it hit the ground—or a massive hole in an aircraft carrier.“
In conclusion, the author of the article said that the combination of the new Yasen-class nuclear submarine and the Zircon hypersonic missile was an incredibly dangerous combination.
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Zircon like the upcoming S-500 Prometheus has no equal and gives Russia complete supremacy in high tech. In the meantime the moron Trump wants the Americunt idiots to inject bleach and shine UV light up their lardass. Unbelievable bunch of retards.
You are right, he actually told the people to inject themselves with bleach to heal the virus! Hahaha!
Trump has turned the US into a complete joke. Quite sad that lunatic becomes POTUS.
No, the US has been a complete joke for a long time, but Trump is simply not hiding it like his stage-managed predecessors.
Who in their right mind can take these dumbass Americunt moron shitheads seriously. Their full retard president is asking his idiotic population to inject bleach in their ass.
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Disagree!!!! The only one WHO can lead an Asylum (an institution for the care of the mentally insane) is a Luna-Tik. Lol
I always tell you guys the facts. The moron also said to shine UV lights up the patients ass as it kills the virus. The fuckers are so stupid that you can’t even make this stuff up ROFLMAO.
one of many Russian innovations that amerika has no defense for—amerikans invent nothing important—not the world wide web, not search engines, not the LED, not mobile phones—indeed while Russian scientists created rockets, nuclear weapons to counter amerikan imperialism—the amerkans were required to bring in Nazi scientists to develop their atom bomb, etc…that 30% of all scientific published articles have derived from Russian scientists in the past 2 centuries is well known—and today US fake innovators patent nearly nothing—inferior to Chinese, Japanese, Russians, etc—there is a reason 80% of the engineers in silicone valley r not US born
Even their ugly Americunt flags are MADE IN CHINA!
But, but America invented rainbow flags!
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Russian weapons systems are the best in the world in terms of price, capability and quality. India is once again Russia’s largest arms purchaser.
India’s Russian Arms Purchases Hit ‘Breakthrough’ $14.5Bln, Official Says
In addition to the $5 billion S-400 deal, India and Russia havelast year signed deals to deliver project 11356 frigates as well as airforce, navy and ground force tanks and ammunition.
US: aggressive military forces strategy RU: defensive military forces stragegy. full stop.
Most excellent Comrades. Most advanced cruise missile system ever developed. Will protect Russia for decades to come. Hurra.
CIA trolls and hasbarats will cry and rage :) Ukropnazis too…