Zircon Missile is Better Than We Thought

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The country that dropped two atomic bombs over Japan is not a "Belligerent" nation?

Zur-con, Zeer-con, Tzur-con, Tzirkon, not 'Zar-kon'.

I love to see someone who is knowledgeable and authoratative in their field explaining concepts without patronising and treating their audience as semi-literates or infants. Such a refreshing change from current TV "documentaries" where a series of various token "talking heads" are paraded parroting scripts they've just been handed, written by someone who doesn't seem to fully understand the subject themselves. Keep up the great work Sub Brief.

I would be realy scared if you had such a weapon, 300 years of history and only 12 years of peace, and yet you find that you have a moral highground to talk down to someone.

Hahaha americans not brain chickens are very funny people.

The problem is it’s very difficult to develop a counter measure because it’s manoeuvrable! One worrying thing is that it’s too fast that it doesn’t even need to have a warhead as the impact would probably do just as bad a damage

A very detailed, objective and unbiased analysis. Godspeed!

As a former Phalanx tech, this worries me. That's way faster than it can handle.

The way to defeat that weapon is to try to befriend Russia instead of trying to wage war against Russia using proxies such as Ukraine and other potential destabilised countries by the US.

Tell me one thing, please. How Zircon is going to find its target through a cloud of plasma? It's physically impossible. If it slows down on a last part of trajectory, it is going to be easy to take it down with SAM or even CIWS, because it will be still flying very high, not close to water surface. But even if we imagine, that Zircon would fly close to water surface (somehow) its just a regular Anti-ship missile like Onix or Harpoon

"Six minutes Dougie Fresh Zircon.." Plus 400Kg warhead for good measure..just in case breaking your vessel in two wasn't enough.

so...the missile knows where it is, right?

The look of amazement on Jive's face during the opening video with the missile launch really sums it up nicely.

I suspect they doubled the range by not having a war head. The maneuverability isn't side to side so much ,it's mostly acceleration/deceleration. If it's fired on a heading of 180⁰ it isn't going to deviate very far from that heading but because the scram jet can be throttled you don't how far it's going. Once it drops back into the lower altitudes it can start maneuvering , but every turn costs it speed. It's down to mach 3 by the time it's located it's target and locked on it. So basically this is a quick way to deliver a supersonic missile over a long distance.

Why in these videos no one ever mentions that the IR signature of that thing could probably be seen from Neptune?

People get too hung up on the tactical application of this thing actually hitting anything. This is a strategic weapon that is never meant to be used. Its existence is justified simply by the question it poses. Even if an opponent force develops an intercepting technology that technology itself carries opportunity cost for alternative investments. Even after a countermeasure is developed and deployed, if you are the captain of a carrier battle group, how close are you willing to have your ships be to the Russian launch systems to test the capabilities? The fact that you now need to be further from Russian territory just to be safe even without being in active conflict is already a win. The fact that you now need to reformulate your naval doctrine is already a win. The loss comes when you have to actually use it in battle, because obviously these things are really only useful against superpower peers and in that war there are no winners.

Don't forget "plasma stealth" that happens at such high speeds ! But this works both ways, and this is why i doubt that active guidance is the prime guidance of it.. I bet they count on speed and reaction time to simply launch it on a "predicted" route and hope for the best, not ideal but if not detected, why a target would change his course ?? Last point; they are about (if not already) preparing some land-based version of it for coastal defences and India seems open to a partner program in the same spirit as the BrahMos

NATO must have eyes on all the black sea fleet due to the announcement by Putin recently, this Zircon missile is truly the stuff of nightmares and things could escalate very quickly

could it hit an aircratf carrier?