The new missile is
set to be deployed on the warships and submarines already built or under
construction for carrying Kalibr cruise missiles.
MOSCOW, March 20.
/TASS/. The Russian Navy expects to accept the latest Tsirkon hypersonic
missile for service and deploy it on warships and submarines from 2023, a
source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.
"The state
trials of the Tsirkon conducted from the basic sea carriers are planned to be
completed in 2022 and from 2023 the missile will be accepted for service and
put on combat duty," the source said.
The Russian Navy
expects to arm all the new and modernized surface ships and nuclear-powered
submarines, including Project 22350 and Project 22350M frigates, the heavy
nuclear-powered missile cruisers Admiral Nakhimov and Pyotr Veliky, Yasen-class
submarines and Lider-class nuclear-powered destroyers slated for construction
with Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, the source said.
TASS does not yet
have an official confirmation of this information.
As other sources in
the Russian defense industry earlier told TASS, a series of trials of the
Tsirkon hypersonic missile has been conducted from a coastal stand to date and
in late 2019 the missile is expected to be tested from one of its basic sea
carriers - the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov. In 2020, the missile’s
trials from the Project 885M multi-purpose nuclear-powered submarine Kazan will
begin.
In his
State-of-the-Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 20, Russian
President Vladimir Putin said the Tsirkon missile was capable of developing a
speed of Mach 9 and its range capability could exceed 1,000 km. The Russian
leader also said that the Tsirkon could strike both naval and ground targets.
The new missile was set to be deployed on the warships and submarines already
built or under construction for carrying Kalibr cruise missiles, Putin added.
Source: ITAR-TASS
20-03-2019
