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Russia builds 'unstoppable' 4,600mph missile that could destroy Royal Navy's new carriers
Mirror, U.K. ^ | Mar 25, 2017 | SEAN RAYMENT

Posted on 03/26/2017 6:53:13 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

Russia has developed an “unstoppable” hypersonic missile capable of destroying the Royal Navy’s most sophisticated warships, the Sunday People can reveal.

Kremlin military chiefs claim they have built an anti-ship cruise missile capable of travelling at between five and six times the speed of sound - 3,800 mph to 4,600mph.

Now experts fear the missile, called the Zircon, could sink the Royal Navy ’s two new £6bn state-of-the air aircraft carriers in a single strike.

The missile flies more than twice the speed of a sniper’s bullet and is almost impossible to stop.

The cruise missile is powered by a “scramjet” - an air-breathing jet engine that can reach incredible speeds.

A swarm attack involving a dozen missiles against the world’s most modern warships would be devastating, experts believe.

The Zircon missile is believed to have a range of up to 500 miles and can be fitted with a series of warheads from high explosive to nuclear.

It can be fired from land, sea and submarines and could prove to be the most important and deadly weapon of the 21st century.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cruisemissile; royalnavy; russia
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To: sukhoi-30mki

There is a line in a James Bond movie where the villains says something like “ 007 what you doing here? I don’t care about your pathetic little island.” I don’t the Russians are focusing on the royal Navy.


81 posted on 03/27/2017 6:08:36 AM PDT by stellaluna
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To: Jim Robinson
Just use your Super ZOT Laser Ray 2400 traveling at the speed of light and satellite guided. Can track, fire and ZOT 2400 missiles per second from a network of 100 secret sun-powered satellites or optionally from our fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Oops, was I not supposed to let that out?

Loose lips sink ships.

82 posted on 03/27/2017 6:13:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: central_va

“... there will never be another nuclear war if both sides have them.”

Excepting Li’l Kimmy NOKO and the Mad Mullahs ...


83 posted on 03/27/2017 6:20:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
I have never been one to pooh-pooh Russian aerospace, but given the dismal results in US efforts on hypersonics I have to take this with a VERY large grain of salt.

It may be proposed, may be in development, but I would lay odds against operational capability.

84 posted on 03/27/2017 6:21:42 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: Cossak

yes, but they are ramjet...capable of approx mach 2.8. they are not scram jet hypersonic mach 7. Everyone is working on scramjet technology. The US has currently been test flying the X test models.


85 posted on 03/27/2017 7:15:36 AM PDT by davidb56
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To: central_va

It would be virtually impossible to guide something going that fast. Even a slight change in direction would make it unstable


86 posted on 03/27/2017 7:18:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: FreeInWV

China considers the Philippines to be in its territorial waters.


87 posted on 03/27/2017 7:20:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

One missile hit equipped with what is probably a smallish conventional warhead, is not gong to sink a 100,000 ton warship. Will it cause millions of dollars of damage? Yes it will. Will it cause the ship to be nonoperational? Yes for a while.


88 posted on 03/27/2017 7:23:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Cool missile!


89 posted on 03/27/2017 7:25:26 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: central_va

You would have to shoot it like an unguided torpedo. You could make fractional adjustments but even with a computer, Mach 7 is too fast for terminal adjustments.
You blow up an AA warhead in front of it and it is running into a cloud of shrapnel at about Mach 10. It will be ripped to shreds. The concussion could also send it out of control.


90 posted on 03/27/2017 7:34:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

4600 mph is about the velocity of a Rail Gun.


91 posted on 03/27/2017 11:41:51 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: BuffaloJack

The skin on that missile would be extremely hot and give off a huge infrared signature.


92 posted on 03/27/2017 11:43:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

>> The skin on that missile would be extremely hot and give off a huge infrared signature. <<

Yes, it would. Frictional heating.


93 posted on 03/27/2017 12:11:19 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: mrsmith

That missile closes at over 200 yards in less than 1/10th second. It would smash into the ship and probably detonate.


94 posted on 03/28/2017 10:15:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad

It’s still in the ballpark for pre-detonating the warhead before contact.

Though I was thinking the missile would count on kinetic damage and not a warhead. I was just thinking of nudging an airfoil-shape, which would cause a drastic change in it’s trajectory.
But I see similar ones in use now do have significant warheads.

Of course ‘in the ballpark’ is just a starting point!


95 posted on 03/28/2017 12:17:23 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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