Russian warship with hypersonic weapons to join drills with China and South Africa IRIA News January 27, 2023 [Excerpt]
On January 25, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that “The crew of the frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov, operating in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean, conducted an exercise on the use of hypersonic missile weapons by computer simulation… the frigate worked out the organization of the application of missile strike with a Zircon hypersonic missile at a sea target simulating a mock enemy ship and located at a distance of more than 900 km.”
China, Russia, and the United States are in a race to develop hypersonic weapons, seen as a way to gain an edge over any adversary because of their speeds, greater than five times that of sound, and because they are harder to detect. Russia sees its hypersonic weapons as a way to pierce increasingly sophisticated U.S. missile defenses that Putin has warned could one day shoot down its nuclear missiles.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the United States that Russian hypersonic missiles would soon be close to NATO’s shores after the U.S. embassy said in a video it stood in solidarity with Russians who opposed the war in Ukraine. The main gift for the New Year with an ammunition package of Zircon.” Medvedev said.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered one of the most deadly wars in Europe since World War Two and the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
[pic] Russian warship with hypersonic weapons to join drills with China and South Africa Asia-Pacific, Europe, News January 27, 2023
