“This is a great event for the country and a significant step in strengthening Russia’s security and its defense capabilities,” said the Russian president.
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This type of weapon is tried “invisible” by Moscow and is at the heart of an arms race between military powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Friday, December 24, a successful test firing of a salvo of hypersonic Zircon missiles. “That night, in the early hours of the morning, a burst from the Zircon hypersonic system was fired”, the Russian leader said at a government meeting broadcast on television, adding that the operation had taken place “with success”. “This is a big event for the country and a significant step in strengthening Russia’s security and its defense capabilities”, he continued, without further details on the shooting.
According to several Russian media, this is the first time that Moscow has announced the launch of a “salvo” of Zircon. The first official firing of a Zircon dates from October 2020. Other tests have since taken place in the Russian Arctic, notably from the frigate Admiral Gorchkov and from a submerged submarine. The last test firing of this missile was on December 16. In a context of tensions with Western countries, in particular with Washington, Russia has increased the announcements of the development of new weapons presented by Vladimir Putin like “invincible”, like Zircon.