Russia has fully completed test launches of hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles from submarines, according to Alexander Leonov, General Director of the Scientific and Production Association of Machine-Building.
We have conducted the tests. There is a whole program for its adoption into service, but it is absolutely not related to the "Zircon" itself. We do not need to conduct any tests for this. The ships are being equipped in the order established by the Ministry of Defense.
"Zircon" is the world's first sea-based hypersonic cruise missile, its flight speed reaches 9 times the speed of sound. These missiles are already arming the latest multi-purpose submarines of Project 885M "Yasen-M", frigates of Project 22350, modernized submarines of Project 949A "Antey", as well as the missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov", which is undergoing modernization.
Earlier, Leonov stated that engineers modernized the Onyx supersonic anti-ship missile.
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