Hypersonic missile "Zircon" successfully hit a naval target from the ship
The launch of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" was successfully carried out from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov". According to the Ministry of Defense, the shooting was carried out in the White Sea, on a surface target. The head of the Defense Department, Sergei Shoigu, reported on the successful test of the missile to the commander-in-chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Successful test firing took place in the White Sea - a hypersonic Zircon missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The flight of the rocket was normal, the projectile hit the target with a direct hit. For shooting, part of the water area was closed by surface ships of the Northern Fleet of Russia.
Patrolling the territory was provided by naval aviation. The Defense Minister reported on the successful launch to the President.
"The tests of the sea-based hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" are being completed. During testing, it accurately, in full accordance with the task, hit both land and sea targets from underwater and from surface ships. Starting next year, these missiles will begin to be supplied to the Russian Navy," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in early November.
"We have always caught up with our, well, let's say, competitors in terms of strategic weapons," Putin said in the early spring of 2020, stressing that now for the first time such systems of shock offensive weapons have been created in Russia, which do not exist in the world. In particular, hypersonic strike systems, including intercontinental range. "Now they are catching up with us," he added.
The presentation of weapons by Putin caused a huge resonance in Russia and the world, and the US armed forces recognized that they currently have no protection against hypersonic weapons. At the same time, a year later, on February 20, 2019, Putin in his message announced the latest hypersonic missile "Zircon".
"Here we will slowly tell you what we have there in the cache. So, about another promising new product, the work on which is going well, and will certainly be completed on schedule, namely, I want to say about the Zircon hypersonic missile," the president said. Putin noted that
In the early spring of 2019, the Russian Federation's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said that Moscow began developing new missiles in response to Washington's decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty back in 2002. According to him, in this way the Russian authorities were looking for an answer to the decision of the Bush administration, which tried to destabilize Russian-American relations.
