Russia Tests Zircon hypersonic Aircraft Carrier Killer Missile

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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RT: The Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov successfully completed a test launch of the state-of-the-art Zircon hypersonic cruise missile on Thursday, the country’s Defense Ministry has revealed.

The Zircon, a scramjet anti-ship missile produced domestically, was successfully fired at a target in the White Sea in the country’s far north. The White Sea is home to Severodvinsk, an important military shipyard and headquarters of the country’s Northern Fleet.

The anti-ship missile is capable of accelerating up to Mach 9, and is designed to hit enemy surface ships, such as frigates and aircraft carriers, as well as ground targets located within the range of the missile. Its speed (9,800-11,025 km/h) makes it difficult for it to be stopped by any anti-aircraft systems, and it has a declared range of over a thousand kilometers.

The missile has been in testing for some time, and last month it was successfully launched for the first time ever from a nuclear-powered submarine.

According to Mikhail Khodarenok, a military commentator for RT and retired Russian Armed Forces colonel, the Zircon has the ability to “seriously influence the global maritime balance of power,” citing the missile’s “high cruising speed” and “significantly reduced radar cross section” as a powerful combination.



Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that, following successful testing, the Zircon missiles would be supplied to the Navy from 2022.

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  2. There’s no getting away from the simple reality that any war the USA would have with Russia would be a war of aggression and Russia would be on the defense. We’ve bankrupted ourselves both financially and morally by pursuing these wars of aggression far from our shores. Russia spends a tiny fraction of that on actual defense. This, of course, is all by design…

  3. The “significantly reduced radar cross section” it must have been substantially improved after catch of America untouched stealth missiles that were shot down on Syria some years before and moved to Russia to reverse engineering… 🙂

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