A long-range X-95 hypersonic missile is being developed for the Russian Aerospace Forces, said Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, head of the military academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. He did not elaborate on any details about the project.
“For the Aerospace Forces, such new and modernized models of weapons, military and special equipment are being developed and adopted, such as the Tu-160M strategic missile-bomber; airborne hypersonic missile system “Dagger”; high-precision long-range airborne weapons, in particular the Kh-95 hypersonic missile; UAVs of various classes; over-the-horizon radar stations; anti-aircraft missile systems (complexes) and more, ”said Mr. Zarudnitsky to the newspaper Voennaya Mysl (.pdf).
A RIA Novosti source in the military-industrial complex said that the missile was being developed for use in the armament of the modernized Tu-22M3M long-range bomber, the modernized Tu-160M strategic bomber and the Advanced Long-Range Aviation Complex. The interlocutor of the agency claims that “prototypes of the new product have already been tested from the air carrier.”
According to Mr. Zarudnitsky, domination in the aerospace sphere is “the most important condition for the successful conduct of hostilities by land and sea groupings of troops.” In his opinion, it is necessary not only to produce and adopt new types of weapons, but also to develop “new forms of their use and methods of combat operations”, which will ensure the achievement of domination in the aerospace sphere.
At the end of June, President Vladimir Putin announced that the Sarmat intercontinental missile and the Zircon hypersonic missile would soon enter service. He recalled that the Avangard and Dagger hypersonic complexes had already been put on alert.
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