Joint shipbuilding corporation (OSK) is ready for the equipment of Russian ships with hypersonic missiles “Zircon” after the team from the military. The conditions of re-equipment named Deputy General Director for Military Shipbuilding and Special Programs JSC “OSC” Vladimir Korolev. Reports about it “Interfax”.
“There is a program of weapons, which is in the introduction of the General Staff. We are in this program are the performers. If we are given such a team, we are ready for this,” said the representative of the OSK, answering the question about the probability of the start of serial armament of ships ” Zirconami “in 2022.
Previously, the source of TASS reported that the hypersonic winged rockets “Zirkon” will come to the armament of the Navy (Navy) of Russia in 2025. He noted that the first regular carrier of the rocket will be the atomic submarine of the project 885m “Perm”.
In November, the Fregat “Admiral Gorshkov” performed the test launch of the hypersonic missile “Zircon” in the White Sea. The rocket successfully struck the goal that was at a distance of more than 400 kilometers.
In early October, the commander of the Northern Fleet Alexander Moiseev reported on the completion of the tests of “Zircon” from the submarine. The commander noted that the shooting was performed from the nuclear submarine “Severodvinsk”.