news not worth sharing here but Ukrainians and MSM are claiming 2 zircons got shot down.....But the thing is these missiles are not declared operational yet still in the testing phase.
Nonsense, it entered service on Naval ships about a year and change ago
What surprised the West was that Russia got a land launched version up and running in a year or less.
They actually believe the BS about Russians being mentally retarded orcs/animals.
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SARCASTOSAURUS
MAR 26, 2024
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Hello everybody!
That was an… ‘interesting’…. day yesterday, as several important things have happened and yet, many of them appear to have ‘passed unobserved’, while others seem to be based on outright refusals to accept realities of this war.
What am I talking about this time?
Let me explain it in my usual fashion, step-by-step.
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AIR/MISSILE WAR
Early in the morning of yesterday (Monday, 25 March 2023), Ukrainians claimed to have shot down 8 out of 9 Shaheds released by the Russians. That far, everything was ‘almost as usual’.
Then, around 10.30hrs in the morning, the Russians fired several 3M22 Zirkon hypersonic missiles at Ukraine. Apparently:
- 2 at Kyiv
- 1 at Poltava
- 1 at Kremenchuk
- 4 at the Odesa area
What’s ‘so special’ about the Zirkon?
Foremost its speed: this is variously claimed at Mach 7 to Mach 9 (i.e. 8,575km/h or 6,090mph, to 11,000km/h or 6,851mph).
Furthermore, at least the two fired at Kyiv seem to have been aimed for the main headquarter of the SBU: the major Security Service of Ukraine, which was celebrating something like its own day.
Now, gauging by Ukrainian reactions, the two that targeted Kyiv have been shot down.
Still, this attack actually caused a shock: it came in fast that there was no time to sound alarm. I.e. the missiles came in, there were two booms, and only then was the alarm sounded. And that in Kyiv: the best-protected piece of real estate in all of Ukraine. I do not want to think what happened in other of targeted places.
Sure, Ukrainians are reporting that all the damage was caused by debris and, apparently, there were ‘only’ injuries… in Kyiv. But, what happened with other Zirkons…. Nobody would say.
Actually: I would say that the people in Kyiv were lucky, sort of: by the time the city was hit, the PSU has had the time to figure out that the Russians are deploying ‘something new’ - because the missiles in question have already hit their targets in the Odesa, Kremenchuk and Poltava areas…
As next, it was the direction from which this attack came that was surprise; or, at least the deployment of these weapons from the occupied Crimea. So much so, some started guessing if these were (‘well-known’) Onyx missiles, as used time and again over the last two years?
Well, all doubts were removed only once the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise confirmed them as Zirkons.
As so often, ‘problem’ is dogmatic thinking. Kind of, ‘Zirkon is installed on major warships (see: battle-cruisers of the Kirov-class, like Peter Velikiy) and submarines (Yasen-class) of the Russian navy, only’ - and not as a land-launched missile. Moreover, its range was assessed with about 300km.
Point is: the Russians have obviously developed the means to deploy it from the land. Might sound ‘impossible’, at least ‘hard’, because this is ‘the Russians’, and nothing of this kind was ever reported by the Keystone Cops in Moscow, but: please mind that the Zirkon is undergoing development for nearly 20 years, and – even more important – the Russians were given two years to find a solution to deploy it from the land.
Moreover, Zirkon’s range depends on the speed and flight altitude: 300km is valid if the weapon is programmed to fly at low altitudes and at max speed. If programmed to fly high and slightly slower, the range can be increased to some 740km. Indeed, if filled with that (apparently: highly dangerous) fuel that was developed especially for Zirkon, this can be stretched to 1,000km. Means: yes, if fired from the occupied Crimea, it can reach Kyiv.
With other words: never say never, and always mind that – except in ‘the West’ – the ‘defence sector’ (and the politicians, plus the media) never sleeps. Weapons of this kind can – and frequently are – adapted to necessities. Especially if their makers are given enough time to do so.
(I hate ‘drawing parallels to the Second World War’, but yes, right now we do have a situation like if, say, the Allies stopped at Rhine and Oder in 1944, and then waited for Hitler’s ‘Wunderwaffen’ to be developed and deployed, so… in 1947 or later…
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So, Russia can now hit most of Ukraine in under 4 MINUTES. Some areas can be hit in 90 SECONDS from launch of a Zircon.
This one got a chuckle out of me
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Ngl I lol'd
