Having conquered hypersound in the development of weapons, Russia may spoil the position of the still strongest American fleet in the world.
This is stated in an article in The National Interest.
As noted in the media, the American military leadership prefers not to voice the scenario, in which all Russian ships are armed with supersonic missiles. Experts immediately identified several reasons that confirm the reality of this outcome.
First of all, such rearmament does not require a lot of money. In addition, Russia began the new year just by testing the launch of the Zircon rocket from the Admiral Gorshkov ship 22350. Moreover, back in December, information appeared that all new Russian ships would be armed with these missiles along with the Caliber.
London has already expressed its concerns about this. They recognized that Russian supersonic missiles would render the missile defense system useless on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier built in 2017. Nevertheless, in the USA they ignore such a situation, relying on their long-range sensors – the only thing that can still prevent the Russian Zircons from sending the American fleet to the bottom.
The publication also drew attention to the fact that Russia defied the United States, whose fleet is considered the strongest in the world. Even the Soviet Union did not do this, the article emphasizes. But now Russia has acquired about three dozen destroyers and frigates, thirty small missile ships and fifty of corvettes. If all these ships are armed with hypersonic missiles, even the US Navy aircraft carriers will be in jeopardy.