Russian warships launching Kalibr land attack missiles against targets in Syria. Kalibr is much slower than Zircon but the latter would launch in a similar fashion. TASS
Popular Mechanics: Russia's New Warships Will Pack Hypersonic Missiles
It's a new era of naval warfare.
* Russia's new Zircon missile travels at a whopping Mach 9, or almost 7,000 miles an hour.
* The sea-launched missile can strike targets on land or at sea.
* All of Russia's modernized or upcoming warships will carry Zircon, giving them a weapon that even the U.S. Navy might not be able to stop.
All of Russia’s new and upcoming warships will carry a new hypersonic missile capable of traveling nearly 7,000 miles per hour. According to the head of Russia’s main warship manufacturer, all modern warships serving in the Russian Navy and those on the drawing board will carry the weapon. Zircon is reportedly capable of striking both ground and naval targets and is likely so fast as to make it unstoppable against modern naval defenses.
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WNU Editor: Can anyone say "carrier killer".
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Carrier like the Kuz hehe
The kuznetsov doesn't need to be hit by a payload to sink. Sinking is one of it's "advanced stealth maneuvers".
A 100 million dollar frigate armed with a Zircon can take out a 13 billion dollar carrier sitting comfortably inside it's cruiser "protection bubble". Sure, that frigate will doubtless be taken out by the carrier's escort before it can escape, but who cares?
We need to be honest that the carrier platform's modern use is to police the third world, and we definitely don't need to replace the entire Nimitz line with Gerald R. Fords at a staggering cost just so they can sit in port during a real war, far away from the hypersonics that have been designed to checkmate them.
Agree, i think missiles and drones will do the job
Russian warships has an inbuilt function, smokescreen by fire.
Sometimes it is best to seem less than you are.
The anti hypersonic weapon systems will come.
What anti-hypersonic weapon do you envision? We can barely intercept conventional missiles as is, and if you believe the skeptics about the patriot system, even those reported successes have been inflated for the sake of Raytheon shareholders and Pentagon reputation. By the time it takes for the radar to pick it up and send an electrical pulse to whatever fictional laser/railgun/wizard in a bottle the warhead has already hit you. It's literally outpacing the speed of information in it's target's wiring.
Let alone all the time it takes for something like a patriot battery to track and calculate a trajectory on a more traditional missile defense. That's why the people who actually understand this system cringe when they see AEGIS or Patriots trotted out as examples of why the carrier fleets are still capable of winning the next war.
There is no defense, there is only parity and the development of your own hypersonics to ensure that your enemy is also denied the use of their coastal bombardment platforms.
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