Zircon launch, video frame. source: social networks
Readers of the Daily Mail reacted to the news that the Russian Armed Forces will receive hypersonic missile systems “Zircon” in 2023, RIA Novosti reports.
One user was surprised how the Russians manage to create such powerful systems, “allocating only a fraction of a percent for this in comparison with the American military budget.”
Another wrote that “the very fact that … Putin has adopted such missiles will already shut up the West.”
A third said that this was expected “after statements by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that the United States should launch nuclear strikes against Russia.”
Another participant in the conversation noted that the Russians do not use even half the power of their army, “and they have already forced NATO and especially Britain to exhaust all ammunition.”
Users called on “militant Britons and Americans” to stop “poking the Russian bear.”
In January, Alexander Leonov, the general designer of the Reutov NPO of Mechanical Engineering, announced that in 2023 the Navy will adopt a surface-launched hypersonic missile “Zircon”. Ships equipped with “Zircons” are capable of delivering powerful pinpoint strikes on any objects on land and at sea. All modern and promising air defense systems are powerless against them.