It marks more than half a year of war in Ukraine, a moment that Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken advantage of to reveal how he intends to reinforce his Army. the Russian leader has announced new military bases around the world, as well as the imminent arrival of the Zircon hypersonic missile. Putin himself has boasted that his new weapons are unstoppable: “They have no rival in the world, no barriers.”
Zircon hypersonic missiles are undetectable, as they have assured in Moscow, by air defenses and electronic systems. “The idea is that supersonic missiles can be shot down, but if hypersonic missiles are introduced, anti-missile shields become obsolete,” explained this Monday in Al Rojo Vivo Yago Rodríguez, director of ‘The Political Room’. They are the new weapon that the Russian Navy will have in the coming months.
The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be the first to be equipped with them. These missiles are nine meters long and 60 centimeters in diameter they have a speed of more than 10,000 kilometers per hour, nine times the speed of sound; in addition, a range of up to 1,500 kilometers against naval and land targets. “The problem they have is the outlet to the Baltic Sea is locked up and even more so now with the incorporation of Sweden and Finland into NATO,” recalled Fernando Arancón, director of ‘El Orden Mundial’.
Along with its rearmament program, Russia seeks to become a great maritime power. To do this, Putin wants to create new military bases such as the one in the port of Tartus in Syria. following this modelseeks to expand in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India and the Asia-Pacific areaterritories that would allow him to control much of the world’s seas and oceans.
Source: Lasexta
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