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Zircon hypersonic cruise missile

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    7th Oct, 2021

Context

Russia has tested the Tsirkon (Zircon) submarine from the Severvinsk nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic.

About 3M22 Zircon cruise missile: 

  • The missile reached its target set at a distance of 450 km in less than 4 and a half minutes.
    • It hit targets successfully upto a range of 1,000 kms (620 miles).
  • The Missile reached hypersonic speeds of more than Mach 8.
  • Missile was launched from the white sea and hit the target at the Barents Sea.
  • The 3M22 Zircon is a scramjet-propelled hypersonic cruise missile.
  • The Zircon arrow is able to fly nine times faster than the speed of sound.

Barents Sea

  • It is located in the northern parts of Norway and Russia.
  • A shallow sea shelf with an average depth of 230 metres, it is bordered by the Norwegian coast to the west, the Kola Peninsula in the south.
  • There are three major types of ocean water in the Barents Sea.
    • Atlantic water comes from the North Atlantic drift
    • the cold Arctic waters from the north
    • coastal waters

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