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Please Support As and Give me a Feed Back to Improve. Russia developing a new ballistic missile for the Russian Navy that can travel at hypersonic speeds and sink an aircraft carrier.
Russia is developing a new “carrier killer” – ballistic missile ‘Zmeevik’ with hypersonic combat equipment for the Navy, reported Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency, citing two sources close to the Russian military department.
“The Zmeevik ballistic missile with hypersonic combat equipment has been developing for quite a long time. It will be designed to destroy large surface targets, primarily aircraft carriers,” According to TASS, the new missile could enter service with coastal missile units of the Russian Navy.
Interestingly, Russia is also developing a new coastal missile system to launch the Tsircon (or Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile that can hit both land-based and sea-based targets.
Currently, only the aviation and sea-based variants of the Tsirkon are known to exist that have a range of over 1000 kilometers and can travel at a speed of Mach 9 (11,113 kilometers per hour).
The missile can reportedly evade the most sophisticated American air defense systems. Because of its tremendously high speed, the air pressure in front of the missile is said to create a plasma cloud that traps radio waves, making it near invisible to radar systems.
The 3M22 Zircon also spelled as 3M22 Tsirkon (SS-N-33) is a scramjet-powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile currently in production by Russia.
The land-based Dong Feng-21D, also known as the ‘carrier killer’ missile with a range of 1,500 kilometers,
The DF-26 missile is considered a more significant threat to the US as it has a range of 4,000 kilometers. The missile can threaten the US forces over a larger area in the Indo-Pacific region, including its strategic Anderson Air Base in Guam. It is why the missile is often referred to as the ‘Guam Killer’

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