{"id":147880,"date":"2021-11-20T19:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T13:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=147880"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:03:45","slug":"russia-successfully-test-fires-zircon-hypersonic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/russia-successfully-test-fires-zircon-hypersonic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Successfully Test Fires Zircon Hypersonic Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia has carried out a successful test of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the Zircon Missile?<\/b><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"n3VNCb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DD-COMPOSITE-RUSSIAN-ROCKET-graphic-2.jpg?resize=602%2C664&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zircon Missile\" width=\"602\" height=\"664\" data-noaft=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zircon is a Hypersonic Cruise Missile developed by Russia. It has been called as one of the invincible missiles by the Russian President.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the special features of Zircon Missile?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile flies with an <strong>advanced fuel<\/strong> that the Russians say gives it a range of up to 1,000 kilometers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile speed is also so fast that the air pressure in front of the weapon forms a plasma cloud as it moves, <strong>absorbing radio waves<\/strong> and making it practically invisible to active radar systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Zircon will join the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-russia-avangard-missile\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was put into service in 2019 and the air-launched Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles in Russia&#8217;s arsenal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Significance for India<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This successful test of Zircon is being termed as good news for India as it will hasten the development of the delayed BrahMos-II hypersonic cruise missile, a joint India-Russia project.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Russia Successfully Test Fires Zircon Hypersonic Missile<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> NDTV on 18th Nov 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Russia has carried out a successful test of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile. What is the Zircon Missile? Zircon is a Hypersonic Cruise Missile developed by Russia. It has been called as one of the invincible missiles by the Russian President. What are the special features of Zircon Missile? The missile&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/russia-successfully-test-fires-zircon-hypersonic-missile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russia Successfully Test Fires Zircon Hypersonic Missile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}