Russian invaders are increasingly using hypersonic missiles «Zircon» during shelling of Ukraine.
This information was reported by the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, URA-Inform reports.
It is noted that its average speed is more than 9,000 kilometers per hour, leaving people very little time to move to shelter.
3M22 «Zircon» — a promising anti-ship missile, declared as a hypersonic cruise missile, with a hypersonic air-breathing propulsion system, currently at the development and testing stage in Russia.
«The missile is designed to destroy enemy surface ships equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems defense It was developed and produced by the Research and Production Association of Mechanical Engineering (NPO of Mechanical Engineering, which is part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation) in the Moscow region, » the message says.
The Southern Defense Forces noted that «Zircon» flies to:
Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev — up to 1 minute;
Zaporozhye, Dnepr — up to 2.5 minutes;
Kropyvnytskyi — up to 3 minutes. Let us remind you that it was previously reported why a Russian missile that crossed the border was not shot down in Poland: the military gave their version.