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Zircon hypersonic cruise missile

November 22, 2021
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In news–  Recently, Russia has successfully test fired a Zircon missile from a nuclear submarine.

About Zircon missile-

  • It is a scramjet powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile.
  • It can travel more than five times the speed of sound and manoeuvre in mid-flight, making them much harder to track and intercept than traditional projectiles.
  • It could hit targets at sea and on land with a range of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles).
  • The Zircon looks set to join Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles that were put into service in 2019 and the air-launched Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles in Russia’s arsenal.
  • Russia had placed into service its first Avangard hypersonic missile in December 2019, making it the first country to claim an operable hypersonic weapon.

Hypersonic technology in India-

  • India has also developed Hypersonic Technology as the DRDO successfully launched the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) in its maiden test. 
  • The HSTDV was an unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft for hypersonic speed flight. 
  • It could cruise at a speed of Mach 6 and move up to an altitude of 32.5 km in 20 seconds.
  • According to DRDO, besides its utility for long-range cruise missiles of the future, the dual-use technology will have multiple civilian applications also. 
  • It can be used for launching satellites at a low cost too.

What are hypersonic missiles?

  • A hypersonic missile is a vehicle that achieves a speed five times faster than the speed of sound, crossing Mach 5. 
  • These missiles travel at a speed of around 6,115 km per hour, with a combination of technology and manoeuvrability of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
  • These systems are one of the more recent warfare technologies being developed by China, North Korea, Russia and the United States. 
  • They are more agile than the typical intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBM.
  • They can travel much faster than current nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles at low altitudes, can switch direction in flight and do not follow a predictable arc like conventional missiles, making them much harder to track and intercept.

 

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