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3M22 Zirkon Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missiles to Give Russian Navy Pivotal Advantage.
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Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser (TARKR) currently under refit at Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. |
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Head of the Tactical Missile Armaments Corporation
(Russian acronym: KTRV), Boris Obnosov said that work on the creation
of hypersonic weapons is proceeding according to schedule. The implementation
of the program had to resolve at least two complicated engineering tasks:
to protect the hull of 3M-22 missile from high temperatures and neutralize
the effect of the plasma cloud that emerges around the missile.
According to Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, completely new fuel Detsilin-M was designed in Russia for hypersonic cruise missiles. "Russian army has been supplied in recent years with Detsilin-M fuel which expands the range of strategic cruise missiles by 250-300 km. It will be used as fuel for jet engines of new hypersonic strategic cruise missiles", he said. Similar mass-dimensional characteristics of new generation seaborne cruise missiles allowed providing universal 3R-14UKSK-KH launchers for them which can fire supersonic Onix, hypersonic Zirkon and subsonic Caliber-NK. The rearming of Petr Veliky cruiser is planned as follows: for the time being the attack missile weapons will comprise twenty cruise ASMs P-700 Granit with a range of up to 550 km. Their SM-233 launchers are located below the upper deck of the cruiser. Modernization of the cruiser which is to begin in 2018 will see the launchers dismantled and replaced by ten 3R-14UKSK-KH-11442M cells which can fire eight 3M-22 missiles each. Petr Veliky will be the second warship armed with Zirkon. It will be preceded by heavy nuclear missile cruise Admiral Nakhimov (Project 11442) which is to complete modernization at Severodvinsk shipyard in 2018. Thus, the Russian Navy will have two nuclear cruisers by 2020 carrying eighty new-generation cruise missiles each. © Copyright 2015 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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