No more than 6 "zirconies" per month. Why the hypersonic rocket became for the Russian Federation "Diamond"

Circon hypersonic rocket is simply astronomically expensive for Russia, the Defense Express military survey experts. And from this it follows that the enemy will not be able to produce many such weapons. For the Russian Federation the creation of a hypersonic rocket 3m22 "Zircon" was extremely difficult, valuable and resource -intensive task. It needed the creation of its main element - a straight hypersonic engine, which allows the "zircon" to move on a march area at a speed of 5. 5 Mach.

This should be added to the solution of technical tasks such as overheating of the body, orientation and navigation in extremely extreme requirements of hypersonic flight. As it was not, but it is currently an existing weapons sample, which has invested billions of money and a decade of scientific works carried out by dozens of scientific institutions. Another thing is that as a result of Zircon cannot fulfill its main purpose - a breakthrough of anti -missile defense.

And for its adoption by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the corporation "tactical rocket launchers" turned the largest scam and falsification.

Considering that for the development, testing and adoption of "Cirkon" all received money, awards, awards and raising, and most importantly-an order, in any case, both the so-called Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and representatives of the Russian military-industrial industry The complex will look like nothing has happened and will continue to repay fairy tales about "analalogine". Therefore, it should be expected that the Russian Federation will continue the attacks of "zircon".

Therefore, the price of 3m22 "Zircon" and the capacity of its production should be understood. Comparing it with the "hypersonic" X-47 "dagger", which is a solid fuel rocket, which is only accelerated to hypersonic speeds, then a rocket with a direct-flowing hypersonic engine will cost at times, if not much more. Because the technological difference between the two products, as between the jet projectile to the "hail" and the winged Tomahawk rocket.

To understand the order of numbers for development, it is possible to refer to the US experience with Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), a missile with a similar direct -flow hypersonic engine. At present, the Pentagon has allocated a Raytheon $ 985 million in 2022 and another $ 407. 6 million in January 2024 to create only a finished product, without parallel basic scientific works. This cost also needs to be added to the United States to prepare for the preparation of serial production.

And if you take all the estimated costs on the topic of hypersonic weapons, the Pentagon laid $ 4. 7 billion for these studies and work for these studies and work. Therefore, one of the methods of estimation of the value of the unit of weapons, taking into account the cost of its development with respect to "Circon" will demonstrate simply overwhelming numbers.

At the same time, the price per unit without this parameter can also be compared to the cost of experimental missiles with similar straight -flow hypersonic engines. In particular, the profile American editions have estimates of the price of the X-51A Waverider test missile of $ 11-20 million per one, with a total cost of $ 200 million, which consisted of four launches.

Thus, in general, it is possible to assume quite care that in the present conditions for the Russian Federation the cost of 3m22 "Zircon" can be quite easy to amount to ten million dollars. And considering the cost of development divided by the number of made, it is possible to get quite astronomical numbers. We should point out that some Ukrainian editions are actively typing from the reality of the value of Russian missiles, for example, $ 13 million for the winged X-101 rocket.

At the same time, accurate cost indicators and even the chances of finding them are impossible, due to complete class in the Russian Federation of any defense expenses in 2020. The number of rockets 3m22 "Zircon" that can produce the enemy, then data from GUR MOU with the estimate of production X-47 "dagger" at the level of 6 units as of the summer of 2023 may come to the rescue. But at the initial stage of their production in 2022, only 20 such rockets were made in 2022, ie 2 per month.