{"id":70338,"date":"2022-01-06T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=70338"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:28:19","slug":"russia-successfully-test-fires-10-hypersonic-tsirkon-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/russia-successfully-test-fires-10-hypersonic-tsirkon-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia successfully test-fires 10 hypersonic Tsirkon missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Russia<\/strong>&nbsp;undertook test-firing of around&nbsp;<strong>10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles<\/strong>&nbsp;from a frigate and two more from a submarine recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zircon missile would be capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of&nbsp;<strong>1,000 kilometres (620 miles) <\/strong>and can travel at a speed of Mach 8\u2013Mach 9, that is 8 to 9 times the speed of sound.&nbsp;The Tsirkon Cruise Missile will join Avangard glide vehicles and the air-launched Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles in Russia\u2019s hypersonic arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was for the first time that Russian authorities reported a successful simultaneous launch test of several Zircon missiles. The Admiral Gorshkov class frigate and Severodvinsk, a Yasen class nuclear-power submarine were used to conduct the test-firing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&nbsp;undertook test-firing of around&nbsp;10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles&nbsp;from a frigate and two more from a submarine recently. The Zircon missile would be capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of&nbsp;1,000 kilometres (620 miles) and can travel at a speed of Mach 8\u2013Mach 9, that is 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":70343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794],"tags":[2829,58,624],"class_list":["post-70338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2022","tag-hypersonic-tsirkon-missiles","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70344,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70338\/revisions\/70344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}