Russia test-fired around 10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles from a frigate and two more from a submarine, Interfax news agency said on Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has lauded the wea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a frigate armed with the country’s latest hypersonic weapons on a trans-ocean cruise in a show of force as tensions with the West escalate over the war in Ukraine.
Beyond Russia’s Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) and Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM), and China’s DF-17 HGV, both nations are developing additional hypersonic weapon systems. Russia, for example, is working on the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile (HCM) and related te...
In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by a submarine of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from...
Navy aircraft carriers with heavyweight anti-ship cruise missiles. Commissioned in 1988, it is currently being upgraded and is scheduled to receive Zircon missiles in exchange for its obsolete older missile loadout. Much of Russia’s naval fleet is antiquated and the deployment of Zircon on these...
The source noted that Zircon missiles can be launched from universal launching platforms 3C14 which are also used for the Onyx and Caliber missiles. TASS does not have an official confirmation of this information. Earlier other sources in Russian defense industry told TASS that Zircon missiles will...
Andrew Nordler, the HAWC project manager at the Tactical Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, stated that "HAWC's flight test is a successful demonstration of the capability of hypersonic cruise missiles, which will become an efficient tool for our combat personnel."...
Hypersonic cruise missiles (HCM) have an air-breathing propulsion system, typically a form of ramjet, giving them very high-speed powered flight. This is more challenging than gliding—maintaining engine ignition in hypersonic flight has been compared to keeping a match lit in a tornado—and is...
The next generation of fighter aircraft is on the horizon and hypersonic (speeds above Mach 5) missiles are likely to be integrated.
Defense firms are racing to meet demand for systems to protect against attacks using tricky-to-intercept hypersonic missiles, with several on display at this week's Paris Air Show.