Nuclear submarine "Perm" will be the first regular carrier of the hypersonic missile "Zircon"

The submarine of project 885M will be structurally slightly different from its predecessors

The multipurpose nuclear submarine of the modernized project 885M (code "Yasen-M") "Perm" will be the first regular carrier of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon", the submarine will be structurally different from other nuclear submarines of the project. This is stated in the materials for the trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Murmansk.

project 885M
project 885M

It is "Perm", among the nuclear submarines of project 885M, that will be the first regular carrier of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon", and in this regard, the submarine will be structurally slightly different from its predecessors.

The nuclear submarine cruiser "Perm" is a Russian multipurpose 4th generation nuclear submarine. The submarine is the sixth ship of the "Yasen" family of projects 885/885M, which are being built by "Sevmash".

"Zircon" is the world's first sea-based hypersonic cruise missile, its flight speed reaches 9 times the speed of sound, it hits a target at a distance of more than 1000 km.

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