Russian Pressident Putin Wants To Put His Hypersonic Missile Arsenal On 'Combat Alert'

Russia's lead Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate test-fires the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from the White Sea toward a land target on the coast of the Barents Sea more than 200 miles away in this photo published July 19. © Russian Ministry of Defense  

Newsweek: Russia Orders Hypersonic Missiles As Putin Vows to Put Weapons on 'Combat Alert'  

Russia's Defense Ministry has signed a deal with a contractor to deliver Tsirkon hypersonic missiles to Russian troops by 2025, as President Vladimir Putin has vowed to put the weapons on "combat alert." 

"A government contract on the delivery of the 3M22 missile (the Tsirkon hypersonic missile) has been signed," the defense ministry said in a statement shared with Russian state news agency TASS on Tuesday. 

"The contract has been handed to CEO of the Research and Production Association of Machine-Building Alexander Leonov at the [Army-2021] international military-technical forum."

Speaking to TASS at the forum on Tuesday, Leonov confirmed that "the contract on Tsirkon missiles will be fulfilled by 2025. The missile has been standardized and can be used both from surface ships and submarines. 

The only difference is in the launcher used on surface ships or submarines." 

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WNU Editor: Russia is ahead in the development and deployment of these weapons.

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