The United States Is Catching Up in the Hypersonic Weapons Race – While military brass and defense policymakers worldwide are ...

The Zircon hypersonic missile is part of Russia’s broader modernization effort. The system represents an indigenously produced weapon that is able to overcome current NATO air defense systems.

MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Russia’s cutting-edge hypersonic missile Tsirkon (Zircon), which is now undergoing state tests is expected to go into serial production in 2018, a source in the Russian ...

Russia developed the 3M22 Zircon scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile and likely used it against Ukraine during an attack on Feb. 7, 2024. These missiles are believed to be able to reach ...

Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Alexey Krivoruchko noted that the Zircon missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate during the design trials, achieving the speed of over Mach 8 MOSCOW ...

The most frightening of the three missile types is the Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missile that can travel around a mile a second. Hypersonic missiles will change war forever. If a ship detected ...

Russia has carried out a number of successful tests of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile. President Vladimir Putin in his televised remarks called the hypersonic missiles test as a big event for ...

The Tsirkon hypersonic missile is slated to be test fired from a Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine this year in conjunction with test launches from Russian Navy surface combatants.

It was the first official mention of the participation by the frigate, “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov,” which is armed with Zircon ... U.S. missile defenses that Putin ...