Russia is massively arming itself – a weapon of terror for US aircraft carriers

Berlin All eyes are on the Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine and the associated danger of war. Meanwhile, Russia seems to have largely lost sight of the fact that Russia is currently implementing, step by step, a massive rearmament program that President Vladimir Putin announced in a speech to the nation almost three years ago.

During a video conference of the Russian State Council over the weekend, Putin announced a “great event in the life of our country”. A unit of the Northern Fleet had fired a whole volley of hypersonic missiles of the “Zirkon” type at six times the speed of sound at a target in the Barents Sea and destroyed targets around 1000 kilometers away. Approach time less than six minutes.

So far only a few kills had taken place. According to Russian ideas, the “Zirkon” should become a weapon of terror for the aircraft carriers and other large units of the US Navy. But ground targets can also be attacked with it.