Zircon hypersonic cruise missile

Moscow has in recent years touted the development of weapons that it hopes will give it the edge in any arms race with the U.S..

The military said it had fired the Zircon missile from a warship and hit a test target in Russia’s Arctic waters.

The shot was conducted on a sea target in the waters of the White Sea,” Russia’s Defence Ministry.

The Shaurya is a canister launched hypersonic surface-to-surface tactical missile developed by the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for use by the Indian Armed Forces.

It has a range of 700 to 1,900 km (430 to 1,180 mi) and is capable of carrying a payload of 200 to 1,000 kg (440 to 2,200 lb) conventional or nuclear warhead.

It gives the potential to strike at very-long-range against any adversary.

China in August tested a new hypersonic missile, which is nuclear capable, which circled the earth before moving towards its target, missing it by two dozen miles.

While China denied the report claiming it to be a “spacecraft” and not a missile, it demonstrated the capability in hypersonic glide vehicle technology, which raises strategic concerns not just for its neighbours like India, but even its rivals like the US.

A hypersonic glide vehicle is launched by a rocket which moves in the Earth’s lower orbit, at more than five times to 25 times the speed of sound.

The vehicle is capable of carrying nuclear payloads, which gives the launching country the strategic capacity to attack almost any target across the world."