In 2022, tests of the small-sized hypersonic missile "Ostrota" will begin, which should be received by the Russian supersonic Su-34 fighter-bomber and the Tu-22M3 missile-bomber with a variable sweep wing, Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.
The newspaper writes that the new rocket will receive a ramjet engine"product 71".
Military expert Dmitry Kornev added that the hypersonic missiles "Ostrota" will allow aircraft to clear their way, destroying air defense systems (air defense — approx. "The tapes.<url>"), making breakthroughs in the interests of strategic operations.
The newspaper recalls that the Tu-22M3 should receive a hypersonic missile "Gremlin", in comparison with which the" Sharpness " will have a shorter range.
Izvestia notes that there is no official information about the new missiles.
In May, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences , said that Russian hypersonic missiles "Zircon" can "disable or even sink up to two or three aircraft carriers and up to seven or eight ships of the enemy guard" in the Arctic.
Ivan Potapov