Russian warship with hypersonic Zircon missiles on drills in Atlantic
In The Times this afternoon.
Russian warship with hypersonic Zircon missiles on drills in Atlantic Show of strength is in response to the potential delivery of American battle tanks to Ukraine. A Russian warship armed with hypersonic Zircon missiles has tested its strike capabilities in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean, after Russia warned Nato over the supply of more weapons to Ukraine. Zircon missiles, which President Putin has hailed as “invincible”, have a range of 560 miles and can travel at nine times the speed of sound, according to the Russian military. A combination of speed, manoeuvrability and altitude makes the missiles difficult to track and intercept, experts say. The exact location of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, which is armed with the missiles, is unclear, but the warship is said to have recently diverted towards the coast of the United States in a provocative show of strength by Moscow’s military. |
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Originally Posted by anxiao
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Was it not a computer simulation? Never miss with a simulation!
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Originally Posted by anxiao
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The Russian defence ministry said Zircon missiles had been tested by computer simulation and that they had “destroyed” a target over 500 miles away.It is not thought that any missiles were launched by the Admiral Gorshkov, but videos released by Russian media showed the vessel’s missile bays opening while crew members simulated a launch sequence. Russia last test-fired a Zircon missile in May in the Barents Sea. This month the frigate was escorted through British waters by the Royal Navy, and then by French and Spanish ships through the Atlantic. It was due to head south past South Africa to the Indian Ocean and enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. But monitoring sites claim it took a sudden diversion and headed west towards Bermuda. Pro-Russian telegram users have claimed this week that it had been “spotted on radar in neutral waters of the Atlantic Ocean — at an effective salvo launch distance from the US coast”. The reports were not confirmed by the Russian Defence Ministry, nor commented on by the United States. But Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s national security council, said this month that the Admiral Gorshkov, which is also likely armed with Kalibr cruise missiles and torpedoes, could be deployed about 100 miles off the coast of the United States. Russia has threatened on a number of occasions that it will use its nuclear arsenal to defend occupied regions of Ukraine that it claims as its own, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, while accusing the West of escalation by sending weapons and supplies to the government in Kyiv. |
Originally Posted by Ninthace
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Was it not a computer simulation? Never miss with a simulation!
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Originally Posted by anxiao
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The exact location of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, which is armed with the missiles, is unclear Who is The Times trying to kid ? |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
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Hmmm.
Who is The Times trying to kid ? That was written to appeal to some of the people that read The Times. They like to believe that we are still living at a time when all ships in the middle of the ocean were invisible. |
So this is a Russian show of strength.
Anyone care to make a comparison between Russian, US and NATO Naval assets? I wouldn't be surprised if America has more fleets than Russia has ships. |
Originally Posted by uxb99
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So this is a Russian show of strength.
Anyone care to make a comparison between Russian, US and NATO Naval assets? I wouldn't be surprised if America has more fleets than Russia has ships. All well and good. It sadly just takes the one to get through. As we found out to our cost. On more than one occasion. |
Very confident that the U.S. Navy knows the precise whereabouts of this
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Not sure. Russia hasvavhelluvavlitbif shios, China a ridiculous number
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
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Hmmm.
Who is The Times trying to kid ? |
I'm just a little curious, are the Zircon missiles as effective as the Kerch bridge defenses? Those military trained dolphins we heard about struggeled dealing with that exploding truck.
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Unlike Russia and China the US does not have many, if any at all deployed anti air weapons in the continental US. So a hypersonic missile is not needed as a normal missile would work just as well.
Edited to add I am not talking about ballistic missile defence. |
Cuban missile crisis pt. II?
A lone Russian ship sitting |
Originally Posted by twb3
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Very confident that the U.S. Navy knows the precise whereabouts of this
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Originally Posted by Ninthace
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How so? Unless it has a shadow vessel.
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Originally Posted by pasta
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As an indication of ship-borne capabilities, the Astute class sonar is claimed to have a range of 3000 miles (whatever that means in practice). SOSUS, or whatever's succeeded it, is presumably more capable. There's also satellite imaging (this is a surface vessel), ELINT, and plain old radar. I'd be amazed if tracking vessels such as this were even vaguely challenging or anything other than routine.
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