Russia announces information about Zircon rockets

On May 15, in a conference in Moscow, the Director of the Russian Institute for theoretical and practical mechanics, Academia Vacily Formin announced, Russia has achieved many remarkable achievements in the field of super missiles. bar and is superior to the US in this area.

"In this area ( supersonic rocket technology ), we are achieving more achievements than the US" , V. Formin said.

Regarding the field of supersonic missiles, Russia's deputy director of technology development, UAC, said: "In the field of supersonic rocket development, they We have experimented and achieved the results of developing new materials, aviation equipment, navigation systems, and the whole of these innovations create new rules of aviation technology ".

Zircon cruise missiles.

At the workshop, detailed information on the technical-tactical characteristics of the supersonic cruise missile was also announced."In some trials, the Zircon Super Rocket prototype has reached Mach 8 (8 times the speed of sound), " a source from the Russian Ministry of Defense announced.

Thus, the cruise speed of the missile can reach from 1.2 to 2.7 km / sec. For comparison, the cruising speed of GLONASS-K spacecraft when it is out of the Earth atmosphere from 241km to 19,200km is 1.3km / second; the speed of Minuteman III American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) is 6.7 km / s; Russia's Topol-M is 7.3km / sec and the P-36M is 7.9km / sec. In terms of many technical factors, Zircon missiles have a superior speed compared to space boosters, but inferior to the ICBM series. However, the Zircon rocket operates at the lower level of the atmosphere with a dense environment, so it needs special fabrication materials with very high heat and abrasion resistance and many other special aviation technologies.

Russian experts at the conference also said that the field of supersonic flight technology will still develop and change in the future. Certainly at the present time, Russia is at the forefront of this completely new technology field.

According to public information, Zircon missiles have a range of up to 400km and speed of travel reaches Mach 5. Russia first fired Zircon test in February 2016 and will soon be equipped with a generation of supersonic weapons. this new one in 2018.

Judging by the Zircon rocket, many Russian military experts said that, with great speed, Russia's new supersonic name would turn missile defense complexes into "past".