For comparison, the Kh-22 missile, often used by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, has a speed of up to 2-2.4 Mach on the terminal phase. This makes the Zircon difficult to intercept ...

MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Russia’s cutting-edge hypersonic missile Tsirkon (Zircon), which is now undergoing state tests is expected to go into serial production in 2018, a source in the Russian ...

the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The crew exercised hitting targets -- mock enemy ships -- with hypersonic Zircon (Tsirkon) missiles at a distance of over 900 kilometers (559 miles ...