Above, the Avangard hypersonic boost-glide weapon is shown during testing in July 2018 and is now deployed operationally.
Sakshi Tiwari – EurAsian Times May 17, 2022
Russia, the ‘world leader’ in hypersonic missiles, is now reportedly developing next-generation missiles even as the US is still finding its way with the technology.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian news agency Interfax last week that Russia is continuing to develop powerful and advanced hypersonic weapons. It currently has three operational hypersonic missiles- the Avangard, Kinzhal, and Tsirkon or Zircon.
“Work is underway to create a new generation of hypersonic missiles for land, air, and sea platforms. In terms of their characteristics, they will surpass the existing and future developments of the leading states,” Borisov told Interfax.
Borisov stated that tests of the next-generation armaments on Tupolev Tu-22 supersonic bombers have started. However, the development of new hypersonic weapons, particularly the new Zircon hypersonic missile, has been delayed.
The air-to-ground version of the missile has been delayed in favor of the naval variant, apparently due to a work backlog.
In March this year, Russia became the first country ever to use a hypersonic weapon in combat when it fired its Kinzhal hypersonic missile at a military facility inside Ukraine. Recently, a Pentagon report revealed that Moscow fired at least a dozen hypersonic missiles on Ukraine.
“We have seen the Russians use hypersonic missiles in the past over the last 75-plus days, largely to hit buildings. They have not fired, from our assessment, a whole lot of hypersonic missiles. And it’s a bit of a head-scratcher why you would use a hypersonic against a building,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby.
Currently, only Russia and China have operational hypersonic missiles, while the US is still a couple of years away from fielding one of its own despite an enhanced focus on research, development, and testing of hypersonic weapons in recent days.
The US has so far conducted two successful tests of missiles under the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program of the DARPA, with the latest being earlier this month. The first test was conducted secretly in mid-march and was hailed as a success by the officials.
The second test took place precisely one day before the US Congressional Research Service released a report on hypersonic weapons on May 5.
Today, the US Air Force conducted another hypersonic missile test from a B-52 Bomber.
However, if the report about Russia advancing its hypersonic program proves to be authentic, it will be another headache for the US and other western countries.
Russia’s Next-Generation Hypersonic Weapons
Borisov said Russia’s main focus was on developing new hypersonic weapons as well as improving the efficiency, range, and accuracy of existing platforms like the Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” missile.
“There is nothing like Kinzhal. It flies at a speed exceeding the speed of sound by more than 10 times, and at the same time maneuvering along the entire trajectory of its flight, is impossible to be intercepted by air defense systems,” Borisov said.
Hypersonic missiles are projectiles that move at speeds greater than Mach-5 or five times the speed of sound (approximately 3,800 mph, 6,100 km/h, or 1.7 km/s). A missile moving at Mach-5 could reach Washington in approximately an hour and a half from Moscow and a little over an hour from Russia’s Sakhalin Island above Japan to Hawaii.
The speed and dexterity of these missiles, especially in the high atmosphere, pose a threat to existing missile defense systems, according to US Defense Department experts. Further, the hypersonic missiles could carry a nuclear warhead and go undetected by the radars.
Hypersonic weapons, such as Russia’s 3M22 Zircon, travel at speeds up to Mach 6 and have a low atmospheric-ballistic trajectory, allowing them to bypass typical anti-missile defenses.
According to the Russians, the missile uses improved fuel with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers. And it moves so quickly that the air pressure in front of the weapon creates a plasma cloud that absorbs radio frequencies and renders it virtually invisible to active radar systems.
Being in a position where the US military neither has the means to detect these strikes from Russia nor a missile of the same class to create effective deterrence puts the US in a position of disadvantage and vulnerability against Russia.
A show by state-backed media had earlier threatened a nuclear strike by hypersonic missiles on three European capitals (London, Berlin, Paris) within seconds.
A highhanded Russian leadership coupled with advancement in its hypersonic missiles could prove a menace to NATO. The US investment in hypersonic weapons is a frantic response to that looming threat.
Lockhead Martin+Boeing should
employ more blacks maybe they
develope faster ? ? ! !
since mathematics is white supremacist .
‘And it’s a bit of a head-scratcher why you would use a hypersonic against a building,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby.’
EVERYTHING is a ‘bit of a head-scratcher’ to THICKOwesterners.
They even communicate in dead clichés like that at the highest Official Level
Foreigners speak better English than THICKbrits and THICKamericanos do.
This is where all that deliberate Globalist wreckage of Education in the Free West implodes on itself.
Year Zero for Britain was 1966, when overnight the excellent Selective Education System was replaced by the Made-to-Fail Socialist Comprehensive System.
Something like that obviously happened in the USA.
The result of that is that NATO is hopelessly behind in Weapons Technology even as it is piling Arms and Troops all along Russia’s Borders for maximum provocation.
Blummen Heck, I am diagnosed Aspergic/Dyspraxic which means I have real comprehension problems.
If I can see all that immediately, and life has positioned me as a Domestic Assistant on near minimum wage, why can’t highly qualified and lavishly remunerated Press Secretaries and so forth see it?
If the Russians are developing hyperspeed+ missiles then maybe they’re developing systems able to shoot down hyperspeed missiles? It won’t be easy, but with hi-tech weapons systems nothing is. That would be something, Russia able to bring down many US hyperspeed missiles before they’ve even developed them.
The US defense budget is many times larger than the Russian defense budget. The greatest difference is that the US spends to create profits for the US defense industries. The Russians spend to create weapons systems that work for the defense of Mother Russia.
The best a man can get.
“A highhanded Russian leadership coupled with advancement in its hypersonic missiles could prove a menace to NATO. The US investment in hypersonic weapons is a frantic response to that looming threat.”
LOL! Seriously? That the Russian government is finally taking action (after many warnings and many good faith attempts to solve problems diplomatically) to protect itself against the existential threat posed by NATO terrorism is “highhanded”? The “looming threat” to all life on this planet comes from the NATO Satanists, not from Russia.
There’s no such thing as TR-3B..
(or TR-3A)
“Russia Announces Developing ‘Next-Gen’ Mach 10 Hypersonic Missiles”. … Good. Now Russia should do us all a favor and give a vivid demonstration of those missiles by sending a bunch of them screaming into Washington DC, Jew York, Lost Angeles, The City, Tel Aviv, Jewrusalem, Basel……
Quote: As US Struggles, Russia Announces Developing ‘Next-Gen’ Mach 10 Hypersonic Missiles ……
But Russia is well behind the US & EU on LGBTQRXYZ, Transgenderism,& CRT …..
Why does the USA not ask NASA for help with hypersonic technology? After all NASA has had rockets that exceed 20000 mph since the 60’s!! How else could the Apollo program break free of the Earths’ gravitational pull? Escape velocity is 25000 mph.
So somebody is lying’ !! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQHKf48Mfw
Yupp.. While the Russian children learn mathematics,science physics, the EU/US children learn the joy of anal sex …
Kinzhal launched at building near Polish border to demonstrate accuracy of weapon. Also western mercenaries were being trained there, and it was a equipment and ammo transhipment warehouse. No defense against Mr. Kinzhal is possible.
This looks interesting as per Hypersonics. Possibly hints and maybe even a clue or two waaay back in the 60s.
Funny, the new “covid” scary “disease” of mOnKeyPox seems to mainly attack the Sodomites. You will not hear that in your Amerikan propaganda called news. Have fun homosexuals.