Russia says it has finished testing the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile but experts doubt that it could make a difference in the war in Ukraine.
This week's testing of Russia's 3M22 Zircon cruise missile has left the West guessing whether Moscow's claim the hypersonic weapon could be deployed by the end of 2022 is idle boast or genuine threat.that the Zircon tests"have been completed" and that the missile would be adopted by the Navy within the next five months.that Russia's new hypersonic missiles pose"a greater risk of escalation and miscalculation.
"The Zircon missile would have a limited relationship to the fighting in Ukraine since it is primarily an anti-ship missile," said Mark Almond, director of the Crisis Research Institute, in Oxford, England."Its role would be to deter any U.S./NATO naval deployment to the Black Sea." weapons supplies, so the Zircon might be deployed later this year to do similar precision attacks to by-pass Ukrainian air defenses because of its speed," he told"But that would suggest Russia needs to resort to its most modern weapons because it is running low on existing missiles."
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