It is planned to complete the tests before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches
MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the submarine carrier-the nuclear submarine (submarine) of the project 885 "Severodvinsk" - are scheduled to begin at the end of August. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"Flight design tests (LKI) of the Zircon rocket from Severodvinsk will begin at the end of August. It is planned to complete them before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches, " he said.
The NGO of Mechanical Engineering (part of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation), where they developed and produced "Zircons", did not comment on this information.
It is known that at present the LCS of the "Zircon" are actively being launched from the surface carrier-the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov". Launches have already been carried out on both surface and ground targets.
Hypersonic "Zircons", along with Kalibr-PL cruise missiles, will form the basis of the strike power of promising submarines of the Yasen-M project 885M, the serial construction of which is carried out by Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC). According to the statements of officials of the Navy and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Yasen-M submarine should ensure the implementation of the concept of non-nuclear strategic deterrence.
Earlier, a TASS source in the military-industrial complex reported that the Voronezh and Vladivostok submarines of the Yasen-M project, laid down on July 20, 2020 at Sevmash, will be the first carriers of fundamentally new Kalibr-M cruise missiles with a flight range of more than 4.5 thousand km. According to him, the new "Kalibry-M" will be able to deliver to the targets either a head unit weighing 500 kg, which is 200 kg more than their predecessors, or a special (nuclear) warhead.
