China said that the Zircon missile system is the main trump card of Russian President Vladimir Putin and noted that the United States has "cause for concern." This was announced on Wednesday, August 10, by the deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly Literary Russia, military journalist Alexey Borzenko in an interview with the 360 TV channel.
"This rocket is shrouded in mystery, as are hypersonic technologies. There is very little information about her," Borzenko believes.
According to him, the main advantage of the "Zircon" is that it is practically invulnerable to air defense. He also noted that Russian Zircon missiles can sink American aircraft carriers in half an hour or an hour.
According to Alexey Borzenko, this is an absolute weapon today. It is noted that it differs in speed.
"There is a special physics associated with speed and mass," he says, specifying that if a simple dummy is loaded into it, due to its speed, the rocket can penetrate any aircraft carrier through. At the same time, there are no analogues of this system.
He also noted that the United States also tried to invent its hypersonic missiles, but it all ended in failure: all 7-10 launches showed that the missiles were unstable. Thus, Russia has overtaken the United States in this area by 15 years.
Borzenko believes that now it is necessary to produce a sufficient number of "Zircons" for the needs of the Russian army. And after him, new models are already being developed.
Earlier that day, PolitRussia provided an exclusive translation of the Chinese edition of Baijiahao, which said that Vladimir Putin showed the White House a military trump card — a hypersonic missile "Zircon", and this should make the United States nervous. As noted in the message, this weapon is a "murderous" weapon of the Russian army, which has no analogues in the world.
According to the authors, there is no defense system in service with any army in the world that can intercept a missile flying at a speed of up to Mach 9.
In March, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the tests of the missile from a surface carrier could be completed in June-July of this year. The department noted that if successful, this launch could be the final one.
The Zircon is the world's first hypersonic cruise missile capable of carrying out a long aerodynamic flight with maneuvering in dense layers of the atmosphere using its own engine thrust throughout the route. It has a range of more than 1 thousand km and is capable of developing a speed equal to nine Mach numbers (speeds of sound).
