There will be no launch: Russia refused to show a new zircon rocket

On Wednesday, February 22, the commander of the Northern Fleet Missile Ship Division, Oleg Gladky, at a press conference in Richards Bay (South Africa), stated that there would be no test starts within the planned artillery exercises. The reasons for the cancellation of the start of the hypersonic rocket did not voice. At the same time, the Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", which had to perform the test launch, arrived in the port of steam.

The active part of the training will be held from 25 to 27 February. It is expected that joint artillery shootings, tactical maneuvering will be performed in the sea. Russia is represented by the Admiral Gorshkov Frigate and the Cama Sea Tanker. On the morning of January 22, Roszmi reported that Admiral Gorshkov Frigate, who performs a long campaign, arrived with a business measure to the port of Richards-Bay (South Africa) to participate in joint naval exercises of Russia, South Africa and China.

There was a ceremony of opening a Tripartite Russian-Chinese-South African naval training. Zircon is a hypersonic surface of the surface base. The fundamental difference between this rocket is a much higher flight speed than other Russian anti -ship missiles. In addition, it can destroy both marine and land targets. The use of a new rocket is provided from ships and submarines that have already been manufactured or built under the caliber missile complexes.

Zircon is the world's first hypersonic rocket launched both from a surface ship and a submarine from the submarine. It should be noted that in May 2022, the Russian Federation had already launched the Circon in the Barents Sea. Then she struck the target at a distance of 1000 kilometers. We will remind, at the end of January in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared the deployment of the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" with hypersonic missiles "Zircon".