Observers of the Chinese newspaper Baijiahao said that the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the imminent delivery of Zircon hypersonic missiles to the Russian army makes the United States nervous.
“Russia “showed the sword”, and Putin directly “unsheathed” his trump card – hypersonic cruise missile “Zirkon”– the authors of the article specify.
The Russian “Zircon” has no analogues in the world, Chinese journalists say. At the moment, no state has such a powerful weapon and defense system capable of intercepting the Zircon. One of the reasons for the excitement of the American authorities, the authors of Baijiahao called the flight range of a hypersonic missile, which can easily “reach out” to Washington.
On August 2, Britain also called Russia’s Zircon hypersonic missile “a chilling threat.”
On July 31, Vladimir Putin, during a speech in honor of the Navy Day, announced the delivery of Zircon to the Russian army and navy in the near future. First of all, the Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be equipped with the missile system. The first tests of the latest weapons have already taken place on it.
Hypersonic missile “Zircon” develops a speed of more than 10 thousand kilometers per hour. It is invulnerable to air defense systems and is capable of hitting a target on the ground and on land, regardless of hydrometeorological conditions..
