Its serial deliveries will begin from 2022
MOSCOW, December 21. /tass/. State tests of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" are being completed, its serial deliveries will begin from 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at an expanded meeting of the board of the military department.
"The state tests of the hypersonic cruise missile of the sea-based "Zircon" are being completed. Its serial deliveries will begin next year," Shoigu said.
The number of carriers of medium- and long-range precision weapons will increase by 30% by 2026, Shoigu said. "As a result of the operational management of financial resources, more than 258 billion rubles will be allocated for the supply of high-precision weapons of destruction. By 2026, the number of carriers of high-precision long-range weapons will increase by 30%, and cruise missiles of various types of basing will double," the minister said. Prior to that, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry said that the number of high-precision cruise missiles in the Russian army has increased more than 30 times since 2012, and the number of their carriers has increased more than 12 times.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" successfully hit a target from the White Sea with a "Zircon" at the Chizha training ground in the Arkhangelsk region. A TASS source reported that the Reutov NPO of mechanical Engineering has started fulfilling a contract for the serial production of "Zircons" for the Russian Navy.
