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Источник: "Адмирал Горшков" в 2020 году проведет стрельбы "Цирконом" несколько раз - Армия и ОПК - ТАСС:
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For the first time, “Admiral Gorshkov” shot “Zircon” in early January this year from the Barents Sea
MOSCOW, March 6. / TASS /. The latest Russian Zircon hypersonic missile in 2020 will be launched from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate several times. This was announced on Friday by TASS a source in the military-industrial complex.
For the first time, “Admiral Gorshkov” shot “Zircon” in early January this year from the Barents Sea. A hypersonic missile flew over 500 km and hit a coastal target.
"The tests of Zircon using the Admiral Gorshkov project 22350 as a carrier of the Northern Fleet’s Northern Fleet frigate will continue, and several more launches are planned in 2020," the agency’s interlocutor said. The source noted that "it is planned, in particular, to confirm the capabilities of Zircon to overcome missile defense."
The machine-building NGO (part of the Tactical Missile Arms Corporation), which, according to media reports, developed the Zircon rocket, declined to comment on the information provided by the source to TASS.
"Zircon"
The plans to create a ship complex "Zircon" with a hypersonic missile in the framework of the state armament program for 2011-2020 were announced in February 2011 by Vladimir Popovkin, Deputy Minister of Defense. According to media reports, flight tests of the rocket began in 2015. As a TASS source noted, by the end of 2018, more than ten test launches of the missile at sea targets had been completed.
In a message to the Federal Assembly in February 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin specified that the Zircon rocket is capable of speeds of about 9 Machs and can hit both surface and ground targets at a distance of more than 1 thousand km.
To launch the Zircon missiles, as well as for the Caliber and Onyx cruise missiles, the 3S-14 universal ship firing complex (UKSK) is used. Such launchers, in particular, are equipped with frigates of project 22350, corvettes of project 20380, in the version for submarines - multipurpose submarines of project 885 "Ash". It is planned to put UKKS on the ships undergoing modernization: the complex should receive a large anti-submarine ship Marshal Shaposhnikov, a submarine of project 949A Irkutsk.
The Águas Azuis consortium and Emgepron, an independent Brazilian state company linked to the Ministry of Defense through the Brazilian Navy Command, signed a contract for building four Tamandaré-class corvettes in Rio de Janeiro on March 5, 2020.
The consortium, created by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), Embraer Defense & Security and Atech, was selected last year to build the ship quartet under the program valued at up to USD 1.6 billion.
To be constructed in Brazil, the Tamandaré-class ships are planned for delivery between 2025 and 2028. According to Brazilian Navy specifications, the corvettes will measure 107,2 meters in length and will displace 3,455 tons.
thyssenkrupp Marine Systems will supply the naval technology of its Meko class shipbuilding platform. Embraer will integrate sensors and weaponry into the combat system, while Atech, an Embraer Group company, will be the supplier of the combat management system (CMS) and integrated platform management system (IPMS), and the recipient of technology transfer in cooperation with Atlas Elektronik, a thyssenkrupp Marine Systems subsidiary that produces the CMS and sonar systems.
“We are grateful to participate again in such important milestone in the history of Brazil’s naval defence with the most advanced ships in their class…The Tamandaré Class Programme will strengthen our ties by transferring technology and generating highly qualified jobs for the country,” Rolf Wirtz, CEO of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, said.
In addition to construction, the contract includes a sustained transfer of technology in naval engineering for building military ships and combat and platform management systems, as well as integrated logistical support and lifecycle management.
As explained, the naval alliance between thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and Embraer Defense & Security can also enable creating a base for exporting naval defense products from Brazil.
The German proposal was one of four designs shortlisted in October 2018. The other three contenders were Dutch shipbuilder Damen, France’s Naval Group and Italy’s Fincantieri.
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