MOSCOW, Dec 28 - RIA Novosti. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that Russian ships with Zircon hypersonic missiles can be located in the port of Tartus in Syria to completely block the Mediterranean Sea.
"We still have our base on the Mediterranean Sea, there is Khmeimim. There (in the port of Tartus - ed.) are also coastal missile systems, there may also be ships that are armed with hypersonic missiles "Zircon", which will completely block the entire Mediterranean Sea," Kartapolov said on the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".
According to him, "military measures are not necessarily war, it is also the creation of direct threats to the enemy, in which he will abandon his further actions." "That is, when they realize that they have a direct immediate threat of the destruction of their strike assets, which are located in Eastern Europe, control systems, their aircraft carrier groups. And what's the point of starting something if you lose in advance? They are very sensitive to defeats," he added.
