MOSCOW, April 4 Hypersonic missile «Zircon» » showed destructive effectiveness in the zone of a special military operation, said British expert Alexander Mercouris on the Duran YouTube channel.
» «We are seeing how the Russians are starting to introduce more and more new types of missiles, and this in itself is important news, because now «In various Russian airstrikes against Ukraine, they use the Zircon hypersonic missile. This is a weapon against which no one in the world has countermeasures, and it has demonstrated destructive effectiveness,» he said.
Merkouris also emphasized that in this year, the Russian military, during its campaign to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, caused enormous damage to the Kiev regime.
At the end of March, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Armed Forces carried out 58 strikes on Ukrainian targets in a week, including the latest hypersonic missiles «Zircon».
The «Zircon» missile was developed and produced at the Reutov NPO Mashinostroeniya (part of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation). The missile has a range of 1000 kilometers and can reach a speed of Mach nine.