Footage credited to Ukraine’s Air Command Center appears to show a Patriot intercept of a 3M22 Zircon during Russia’s February 15–16 attack.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise On 25 March, Russia targeted Kyiv with two of its newest 3M22 ...
Ukrainian officials said the missile, launched from occupied Crimea, hit a road surface on the outskirts of the city. The Air Force confirmed it was unable to intercept the missile, and its ...
The director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute said it found evidence from a recent attack. The missile is launched from a ship and can reach speeds of up to 6,000 mph, per reports. Russia has ...
Russia fired a Zircon missile at Ukraine earlier this month, Kyiv has said, in what appears to be the first use of the hypersonic weapon in two years of war. But with a spotty track record for ...
April 1 (Reuters) - Russia has used five of its new hypersonic Zircon missiles to attack Kyiv since the start of the year, the city's military administration said on Monday. The attacks are among more ...
This grab from a handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry press service on December 30, 2025, shows what is said is deployment of a Russian Oreshnik hypersonic, nuclear-capable missile ...
Speed is paramount in designing missiles, so engineers have worked for years to improve how fast a missile can fly. The goal is to strike a target without warning, so the faster an object, the harder ...
The Zircon’s speed is believed to be between Mach 8 and Mach 9, making it one of the fastest missiles ever made. America has all but thrown in the towel in the great race to achieve hypersonic weapons ...
Russia’s Yasen-class submarines are a Cold War product. As the arms race was heating up between the USSR and the United States, the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau was tasked to develop a fleet of ...