In the "West-2025" military exercise, the Russian Northern Fleet's frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" launched the "Zircon" hypersonic missile, simulating an attack on NATO targets.
The Russian "Zircon" hypersonic missile is designed with a waverider configuration and is a typical representative of the combination of waverider technology and scramjet engine technology. This combination enables it to maintain powered flight at extremely high speeds and perform complex maneuvers within the atmosphere, making it one of the most advanced missile technologies in the world today, posing a serious challenge to existing Western anti-missile systems. So far, the West has been significantly lagging in hypersonic missiles; the current experimental hypersonic missiles developed by the United States are only of a double-cone design, which is not on the same level as the waverider.
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