Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched one of his country's most modern warships armed with advanced hypersonic missiles on a long voyage. 9News
And whether the Zircon missile could be brought to bear in that war is uncertain.The US-based Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance says the Zircon is "a manoeuvring anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile" with a range of somewhere between 500 and 1000 kilometres.Hypersonic is defined as any speed above Mach 5 .
From a Russian perspective, the optimal firing range for the weapons would be from the Black Sea, to the south of Ukraine.Local residents carry the body of a 20-year-old man killed in Russian shelling in Kherson on January 5. The conflict is now in its tenth month. But those weapons, even with their longer range, would face the same problems reaching Ukraine as the Zircons.gave Putin something positive to talk about amid large Russian losses against Ukraine, including one of its most prized warships, the Moskva, which was sunk last April in what Ukraine says was an attack by its missile forces.
Emergency workers remove debris of a house destroyed following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 29, 2022.
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