Trial launch of the Zircon rocket from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate. Photo: Global Look Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated his military trump card to the United States, and his message should make Americans nervous, writes the portal “PolitRussia” with reference to the Chinese publication Baijiahao.
The publication refers to the Russian hypersonic missile “Zircon”, which in China is considered Moscow’s main trump card against the United States. “Russia showed the “sword”, and Putin directly “bared” his trump card — the hypersonic cruise missile “Zircon”,” the author of the article writes.
According to a Chinese journalist, a hypersonic missile is a “killer” weapon of the Russian army, which has no analogues in the world. The publication recalled that so far no army in the world has come up with a system capable of intercepting a missile flying at speeds up to Mach 9.
The flight range of the “Zircon” reaches a thousand kilometers, the article clarifies. According to Chinese military experts, if Russian troops deploy submarines equipped with “Zircons” in neutral waters 400 kilometers from the coast of the United States, then the missiles will easily “reach” the capital of the United States. It will take only four minutes to strike Washington and destroy government and military facilities, the publication clarifies.
Earlier, Putin’s statement about the imminent start of deliveries of hypersonic Zircon missiles to the armed forces of the Russian Federation caused panic in the UK. On July 31, at a speech in St. Petersburg, the President of Russia announced the transfer of hypersonic missiles for the Russian army in the coming months. The first ship to take up combat duty with the Zircon will be the frigate of the Northern Fleet Admiral Gorshkov.