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Pradeep Kumar

05/10/21 11:50 AM IST

Russia test-fires new hypersonic missile from submarine

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A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from a nuclear submarine for the first time.

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  • The Russian Defence Ministry said the Zircon missile was launched from the Severodvinsk submarine and hit a designated mock target in the Barents Sea.
  • The launch marked Zircon’s first launch from a submarine.
  • It previously has been repeatedly test-fired from a navy frigate, most recently in July.
  • Zircon’s tests are to be completed later this year and it will be commissioned by the Russian navy in 2022.
  • Zircon is intended to arm Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines. It is one of several hypersonic missiles under development in Russia.
  • The Kremlin has made modernizing the country’s arsenals a top priority amid the tensions with the West that followed Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
Hypersonic missiles are much faster and more agile than normal ones, making them much harder for missile defence systems to intercept.

Source: The Hindu

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