Alexey Podberezkin, director of the MGIMO Center for Military and Political Studies, explained what the successful tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine say on Sputnik radio.
For the first time, the Russian Navy has tested a hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the nuclear submarine "Severodvinsk".
According to the Ministry of Defense, the shooting was carried out on a conditional naval target in the Barents Sea, the flight of the missile corresponded to the specified parameters, the means of objective control confirmed the successful defeat of the target.
Last year, as well as in July of this year, it was reported about the successful launches of the Zircon from the frigate of the Northern Fleet Admiral Gorshkov.
The hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" is capable of carrying out a long aerodynamic flight with maneuvering in dense layers of the atmosphere on the thrust of its own engine and hitting targets at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers. Its maximum speed is about nine speeds of sound (approximately 2.65 kilometers per second).
On the air of Sputnik radio, director of the MGIMO Center for Military and Political Studies, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexey Podberezkin commented on the tests.
According to him, the current tests in their significance can be compared with the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite in 1957.
