"Sarmat" and "Zircon" as a response to the US preventive global strike

В previous In the text, I presented the first “toy” of Putin, with which he blackmails Biden, today I will tell you about two more. The second most lethal, it was after her that Biden began to back down and, believe me, you would have done the same in his place, because there is no reception against scrap, and Putin is in the hands of scrap today! You will also understand that all the arguments of our homegrown military observers, who are trying to level this product and belittle its destructive power, are not even worth a damn (Putin himself debunks their words, but I will not get ahead of myself, everything is in order).

Grandpa Joe's Mental Improvement Medicine #2: "Sarmatian"

Since I have already begun to write in the 1st part about the Sarmat ICBM, then it is necessary to explain what kind of animal it is and what is its advantage over the Voyevoda. Ever since the United States unilaterally withdrew from the 2001 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by Brezhnev and Nixon in 1972 and began to quietly move its missile defense bases to the borders of the Russian Federation, an inevitable and clear threat has hung over Russia to lose parity in nuclear confrontation with the United States. If anyone has forgotten, then we owe the 70-year peace on our planet to him - the balance of power between the USSR and the USA in land, sea and air-based strategic nuclear weapons. And if the States retained some advantage in the last two components, then the USSR, and later the Russian Federation, as its successor, more than compensated for it with their superiority in ground-based nuclear deterrence. And it was on them that Bush Jr. encroached, withdrew from the ABM Treaty - on our silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). And most importantly, you won’t dig in - the States, surrounding us with their missile defense bases, don’t threaten anyone, it’s just that their anti-missiles, having the ability to shoot down our ICBMs on accelerating trajectories even at the start, neutralize all the advantage of the Russian Federation in ground-based nuclear deterrence, thereby breaking the existing parity on nuclear carriers through the knee and allowing the United States to dictate its terms to the Russian Federation from a position of strength.

And soon, from the banks of the Hudson, we heard poorly concealed threats about a possible preventive global nuclear strike and that the Russian Federation is a de-regional power, a gas station in Europe, which should already shut up and know its place. And we did just that during the unforgettable EBN - we shut up and faithfully licked the Yankees ass, knowing our place. So what? How did it end? Plans to deploy new missile defense systems in Europe (in Romania and Poland) and in Southeast Asia (in Korea and Japan), as well as re-equipping existing NATO bases in Germany and Spain with new high-yield nuclear warheads with the possibility of delivering them to their destination Allied aviation. And no one could interfere with these plans. America dictated its terms by the right of the strong, who defeated his opponent in the Cold War! The Russian Federation could only helplessly blather in the UN Security Council and wring its hands in sorrow. Nobody wanted to listen to her. The deadline has been set for 2020. And he was getting closer. Putin had very little time. Now it becomes clear to you why he did not want to get involved in the events in Ukraine - there were sorely lacking resources for a radical re-equipment of the RF Armed Forces, it was extremely imprudent to disperse them for combat operations in Ukraine, which the United States so dreamed of (they took Crimea, leveled threat from the south and enough!).


How did Putin solve this problem? asymmetrical as always. At the same time, it is cheap (based on old Soviet developments) and very angry. The solution to this problem is called "Sarmat". This is a promising Russian 5th generation silo-based strategic missile system with a heavy multi-stage liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, which is designed to replace the famous and terrifying Voevoda ICBM. The rocket got upgraded engines from its predecessor and the ability to use its mine launchers (due to their high cost, it was foolish to refuse them, the designers entered the new rocket into their dimensions). For its mass production, the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant was chosen, which made it possible to completely abandon the services of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex - Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and the Yuzhmash plant. Due to a slight reduction in the mass of the product while maintaining the power of boosters and striking elements of the BC, the developers managed to halve the time it took it to exit the mine to a ballistic trajectory, which made it inaccessible to destruction by enemy missile defense systems on booster trajectories. Thus, the problem with US anti-missiles was solved radically. This problem no longer exists.

During the development of the Sarmat ICBM, the concept of "orbital bombardment", implemented in 1962 in the Soviet R-36orb rocket, was revived. This is an effective means of overcoming enemy missile defense, which allows attacking targets on US territory along a variety of trajectories, including through the South Pole, bypassing deployed missile defense systems, and requiring the United States to create a “circular missile defense system”, which is significantly more expensive than the GBI anti-missiles currently deployed in Alaska ( Ground-Based Interceptor) on the standard (shortest) flight path of Russian silo-based ICBMs. In addition, on approaching the target, the Sarmat splits into 10-15 warheads, each of which has its own unpredictable flight path, which makes it possible for them to bypass the air defense systems of a potential enemy.


Speaking about the performance characteristics of the Sarmat ICBM, Putin stressed that with a weight of over 200 tons, it will have a shorter accelerating section compared to the Voyevoda due to a more powerful set of engines that give the ICBM more acceleration. The range of the new heavy missile, the number and power of warheads, according to the president, is greater than that of the famous "Satan". He said in particular:


These are the words of the president. From myself, I can only say that the first test launch of the newest liquid-propellant heavy ICBM Sarmat is scheduled for this year (the test site near Krasnoyarsk has been waiting for it for half a year).

Grandpa Joe's Mental Improvement Medicine #3: Zircon

But the "Sarmat" is only waiting in the troops, and the "Zircons" are already there. This is the same present that made Grandpa Joe sleepless and had an irresistible desire to negotiate with the “killer” Putin. This hypersonic anti-ship missile, in fact, buries all the naval positioning systems of the United States forces on its balance sheet, their national pride and the fear of all coastal weak states - aircraft carrier strike groups in the amount of 11 units. The Zircon, like an awl through butter, pierces through the entire famous American Aegis sea-based missile defense system available on the aircraft carrier escort ships and puts a final fat cross on aircraft carriers as a class of ships. Product developer NPO Mashinostroeniya (one more reason to thank Herbert Efremov and his team).

This missile is designed to replace the P-700 Granit heavy anti-ship missile. The fundamental difference of the missile is its significantly higher flight speed compared to both other Russian anti-ship missiles and anti-ship missiles in service with other states, which is especially important because we can destroy them outside the range of their anti-ship missiles. In principle, not much is known about the rocket from Russian sources. From the performance characteristics, only the estimated length of the missile (8-9,5 m) and the weight of its warhead (300-400 kg) are known. Putin himself, speaking in front of the Federal Assembly in 2019, highlighted its speed (about Mach 9) and range (more than 1000 km). In addition, he drew the attention of our potential adversaries that Zircon can destroy both sea and land targets. As launchers for it, the same UKKS 3S-14 (universal shipborne rifle complex) is used as for the subsonic winged Kalibr and for the supersonic P-800 Onyx anti-ship missiles.


As carriers for it, all available and under construction BNK (large surface ships) of the far sea zone can be used - from the Admiral Nakhimov and Peter the Great TARKR to frigates and corvettes of projects 22350, 11356R, 20385 and 20386. From the submarine "Zircons" will be equipped with all SSBNs of the 3rd and 4th generation of projects 949A "Antey" and 885M "Ash-M", as well as promising SSBNs of the 5th generation "Husky". Also, they can theoretically be equipped with all our RTOs and diesel-electric submarines equipped for Caliber. And let the potential enemy guess what the meeting with these "kids" threatens him with. It is possible that the “baby” will snap at the “Zircon”, and then all the passengers of these enemy vessels will have a non-zero opportunity to make an unplanned excursion to the seabed for a personal acquaintance with the inhabitants of the local underwater fauna. Missiles can be used both from the surface and from the underwater position. Moreover, since 2019, work has been underway to "land" the sea "Zircon".

Separately, I would like to say a few words in defense of the product. Here I have already heard from some especially advanced comrades who consider themselves aces in the naval theme that the Zircon is a conventional anti-ship missile, an evolution of the ones we already have in service, it just flies a little faster and hits a little further. There is nothing special to be proud of, they say, the old Soviet developments. In general, prehistoric garbage of the Soviet era. Well, Putin is not at all a sharpie, trying to deceive the light of the eyes of their grandfather, the naive Biden. Below I will provide data from American sources that track all our movements in this direction. Do you even believe them?


To make it clear, I will explain what is the point here. Our new two-stage hypersonic missile "Zircon" is really an evolution of the single-stage supersonic anti-ship missile "Oniks" already in service. "Onyx" is equipped with a solid propellant rocket engine (RDTT), located in the combustion chamber of a ramjet engine, which brings it to supersonic. Solid propellant rocket engines, the developers of Zircon, really used it for acceleration as the 1st stage, accelerating the rocket to Mach 3. And then the 2nd stage is turned on, for which the designers used a ramjet, which is launched at speeds above Mach 3, which, in fact, brings the rocket to hypersound. The rocket flies on the march section at an altitude of 30-40 km, where air resistance is low, such a flight altitude can significantly increase the range and speed of the rocket. The speed characteristics of the "Zircon" of the order of 10,2 thousand km / h make it inaccessible to the existing enemy missile defense systems. It is almost impossible to defend against such a missile, as well as to detect its launch in a timely manner.


The genius of our designers was that they were able to use the advantages of a ramjet engine, which, unlike a conventional liquid-fuel rocket (which, in addition to the liquid fuel itself, also carries an oxidizer for its combustion), does not need an oxidizer. The ramjet acts as an oxidizer in the air itself, which, under high pressure at a speed of Mach 3, enters the engine combustion chamber, which limits the rocket flight ceiling to a suborbital altitude, where the oxygen content in the air is sufficient to sustain combustion. But the whole trouble is that in the dense layers of the atmosphere the object heats up to unthinkable temperatures (about 2,5 thousand degrees Celsius), ordinary material is not able to withstand such temperatures. The developers had to find an unusual, carbon-carbon composite (while it is classified). Naturally, all these are still Soviet developments used in the Buran space shuttles, which overheated upon return, falling into the dense layers of the atmosphere at speeds over Mach 25.

And although the HPVGs are conceptually simple, their actual implementation has been limited by serious technical problems. Hypersonic flight in the atmosphere causes enormous resistance, the temperature in the engine can be much higher than in the surrounding air. Sustaining combustion in a supersonic flow presents additional challenges because the fuel must be injected, mixed, ignited and burned in milliseconds. Although scramjet technology was developed back in the 1950s, it is only today that our scientists have been able to advance in this direction, when their American counterparts are only picking their noses.

Soviet missiles reached hypersonic speeds back in the 70s of the last century. But this was achieved by the fact that the car was accelerated either by a ballistic missile or by a carrier aircraft. For example, such as the MiG-31, capable of flying at a speed of 3 thousand km / h (and our Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles use this circumstance, in fact, these are the same Iskander-Ms only air-based, the platform for which and the MiG-31K serves, accelerating them to a speed of Mach 2,5, and then the “Dagger” is already flying itself due to the solid propellant rocket engine, bringing this speed to Mach 10-12). In contrast, the Zircon launches and flies independently in hypersound, using a liquid-propellant ramjet as the 2nd stage. After all, such an engine also required a special fuel, for which the developers used bicillin obtained from vacuum gas oil using hydrogenation processes. This is a technological breakthrough, and it should be noted. "Zircon" is qualitatively different from all Putin's hypersonic toys that he has illuminated before (both "Avangard" and "Dagger" use the inertia of an external carrier to reach hypersound, while "Zircon" does it on its own).


And such a missile has been entering mass production since January 2022 to meet the needs of the fleet (work on air and ground-based Zircons is also already underway). During the reporting period since 2012, 9 test launches have been carried out. All are successful. So, on October 4, 2021, Zircons successfully fired from both surface and underwater positions (from a depth of 40 m) SSGN of the 4th generation of project 885M Yasen-M. The launches were made from the missile submarine K-560 Severodvinsk at night from the White Sea against mock sea targets in the Barents Sea. The targets were hit successfully, the ammunition worked properly, according to the specified parameters.

Since the targets can be not only sea, but also ground, and the launches were made covertly from neutral waters, the entire coastal infrastructure of our potential enemy in the declared radius of the missile’s impact felt very uncomfortable as a result. After that, old Biden lost the remnants of sleep, and the insidious villain Putin activated the “Revision of the results of the Cold War” button. Who here still does not understand that only from a position of strength can we dictate our conditions to the enemy (they do not understand otherwise). What Uncle Vova did already in November 2021, having first connected Lavrov’s department for this. And old Biden had to reckon with this fact if he did not want to see Shoigu instead of Lavrov at the negotiations. This is the reason for his haste with meetings and submissive humility in the face of all our "arrogant" demands. And he will also fulfill them, to your deepest surprise, and this whole masquerade with Ukraine serves only to divert the attention of his own plebs, so that he does not kick old Joe hard when he finds that under the guise of this pandemonium with the evacuation of embassies and whipping up hysteria in In the media, he leaked all of Eastern Europe to Putin, along with the very Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic states to boot.

And to make Grandpa Joe think better, on December 24 of the past year, the villain Putin from the board of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate also fired volleys of Zircons at mock sea targets in the Barents Sea. The tests, as Putin said, "were successful and flawless." All targets are hit. A week earlier, on December 16, the same frigate of the Admiral's series of project 22350 from the White Sea with the Zircon hit a ground target - a coastal target at the Chizha training ground in the Arkhangelsk region, located at a distance of 450 km from the missile launch site. Thus, Vladimir Putin congratulated his American counterpart on the upcoming Catholic Christmas, doing it with special "cynicism". But the new year does not bode well for Grandpa Joe either. But more on that next time. Sensing weakness, Putin will not let go of his victim until he shakes out of him the guarantees of the security of his own country. And this is how any ruler who cares about the well-being and prosperity of his homeland should act.

Who thinks that Putin spends too much money on guns, saving on their oil? Take my word for it, without guns you won’t even have butter, everything will be taken away by the kindest soul Grandpa Joe. The people who do not want to feed their own army will feed someone else's. Who does not believe, look at Europe, she can’t even go to the toilet without the permission of Grandpa Joe. I am already silent about Ukraine - they no longer know where to patch up their lace underpants, which they were given to visit the Vienna Opera. So far we have only reached the Polish toilets, there is no money for the opera.

In the last part, I hope to put an end to this protracted military-diplomatic saga. There you will find out how it all began (some such event served as the starting point for this Russian demarche, unprecedented in its impudence), and also, I hope, you will find out how it all ends. Not saying goodbye.