Nice but at Mach 7 its not going to turn much so predict line of flight will not be all that hard for Aegis Class ships. and Standard is a pretty good missle too.
I was in Central America when the “Moskva” visited and was able to talk with one of its senior officers.
Their “culture of maintenance” stinks beyond anything we could even imagine and the ship was barely able to keep moving for it’s port visits.
Any weapon system used by the Russians will need some major tinkering to get it to work correctly, if reliably.
And knowing how they “weigh” their testing, the Indians must think they can do something with the tech. not necessarily the actual system.
er, the Russians are dumping a tremendous load of diamonds to raise money that does amount to a whole lot in the big scheme of things.
oil prices are destroying them.
where are they getting the bucks to do all this and sustain an invasion that analysts say they can continue for only a year financially?
can arms sales make up that much of the difference?
If you get hit by that you will need some Zircon encrusted tweezers to extract it.
Since our economy is 10 times bigger than Russia’s, and since we don’t have a missile coming close to this one, I have to assume that this particular missile doesn’t exist and we have nothing to worry about.
...but that picture of the Kirov cruiser looks incredibly real. But I still don’t buy it, because we spend 10 times as much on defense as they do, therefore our ships are 10 times bigger than theirs - and we have nothing 10 times the size of that (or even 1 times).
[sorry, I’m just being cynical, applying the rationale used by others here when they were trying to get us to start WW3 over The Ukraine]
Seeing all the problems the U.S. is having with it’s WaveRider hypersonic missile, I wonder how viable the Zircon/Brahmos II really is at this stage.