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On December 11, the Russian Navy’s frigate Admiral Gorshkov fired a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile from the White Sea at a coastal target located at the Chizha training ground in the Arkhangelsk region. According to the Defense Ministry, the hypersonic missile successfully hit the target located at a distance of over 350km. The missile flight speed was more than 8 Mach.
The previous test launch of the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile was carried out by the Admiral Gorshkov on November 26. Then, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Zircon missile successfully hit a sea target at a distance of 450 km. The flight speed of the missile was more than Mach 8.
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Impressive… Going to be even more so when a Yasen-M (Project 885M) fires one from underwater.
The USN and RN are going to be sweating their balls off then!
Yes, this is the big deal about this development in terms of balance of power. It’s impressive that they can shoot this extremely powerful weapon from a small ship like a frigate and by analogy from any unit that has launchers compatible with Kalibr (and possibly Oniks). This means that a whole array of warships instantly gets expanded with hypersonic capability, some of them small and hardly detectable. This is a big step and very important. Of course, it was preplanned. They surely had this in mind when they designed the launch systems. This is a fundamental philosophy of the Russian arms development — expandability, modularity, and integrability in an efficient way.
“instantly” a bit of exageration
I think not.
In the TV games you play, I bet the upgrades are made instantly.
So kind of you to be concerned about my person. However, it’s a bit disappointing that you are confusing me with someone else. If you cannot understand simple logic and fail to realize the respective consequences on where’s your place and what’s your standing, we would need to move on and accept that we cannot communicate well and make peace with the fact that no disagreement would be resolved. I’m making a living of logic and analysis (although not in the field of politics). I’m simply not going to doubt myself easily. So go your way and feed your deficiencies somewhere else.
What a pompous train of words. I bet the chicks get wet “instantly” have multiple orgasms and Russia upgrades its entire arsenal before you finish introducing yourself.
I think these are already deployed. Contrary to official statements. Thstsz a clear warning.
Yes they are deployed in relative small numbers, synonymous to Poliment Redut that had similar deployment while working out a bug in one of their radars.
Best hypersonic cruise missile. Period.
Only hypersonic cruise missile atm…
Good job Comrades ??? CIA trolls and hasbarats will cry and rage. Ukropnazis too…
Max speed is Mach 11 by the way. Range for domestic variant is 1200km. All public info…
That is a bad ass.
Black Sea and Baltic Sea and Mediterranean will become NATO naval grave yards.
I wouldn’t hold my breathe for that
Name a working defence system that can be used in the West to defeat hypersonic missiles. In reality the nation that dominates is the one that creates a working defence against hypersonic missiles.
Aegis, all icbms are hypersonic.
No, you have countless other reasons to hold your breath. Start now.
Your wishes make me feel fullfiled and sleep tighter. Please continue.
This thing is wild dude