Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles. Project 885M are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a program to modernize the army and fleet.
The sea-based hypersonic Zircon missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles), and can travel at several times the speed of sound, making it difficult to defend against them.
The Russian multi-purposes frigate Admiral Gorshkov, which tested its strike capabilities in the western Atlantic Ocean earlier this year, has already been equipped with Zircon missiles.
President Vladimir Putin said earlier this year that Russia would start mass supplies of Zircon missiles as part of the country’s efforts to boost its nuclear forces.
The British Royal Navy is building a new class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines.
The name of the new subs recalls the first Dreadnought, a battleship that redefined naval warfare. Britain’s new class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines, designated as SSBNs, will fill a looming gap in the country’s nuclear deterrent.
In 2007, the British Parliament approved a plan for four new SSBNs to replace the Vanguards. After years of design work, construction on the first boat, HMS Dreadnought, began in 2016. Each Dreadnought will be powered by the PWR3, a new nuclear reactor built by Rolls-Royce.
They will also have X-form rudders and a new turbo-electric drive that powers an electric motor that drives an improved pump-jet propulsor, likely making them quieter than their Vanguard-class predecessors. Propulsion systems, the Dreadnoughts, will have an angular design meant to deflect active sonar waves, making them stealthier.
The Dreadnoughts will have four 21-inch torpedo tubes and carry Spearfish heavyweight torpedos. Their main armament, however, will be 12 Trident II D5 ballistic missiles, four fewer than on the Vanguard-class subs carrying Mk4/A “Holbrook” nuclear warheads.
On Sunday, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper said that Japan and the U.S. would agree this week to jointly develop an interceptor missile to counter hypersonic warheads developed by China, Russia, and North Korea.
The agreement on interceptors to target weapons designed to evade existing ballistic missile defenses is expected when President Joe Biden meets Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in the U.S. on Friday, the report said, without giving any source for the information.
Unlike typical ballistic warheads, which fly on predictable trajectories as they fall from space to their targets, hypersonic projectiles can change course, making them more difficult to target.
Washington and Tokyo developed a longer-range missile designed to hit warheads in space, which Japan is deploying on warships in the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula to guard against North Korean missile strikes.
The United States Navy currently operates the biggest fleet of ballistic missile subs, consisting of 14 18,800-ton Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).
France and the United Kingdom operate four SSBNs each, with France belonging to the 14,300-ton Triomphant class and the United Kingdom’s 15,900-ton Vanguard class.
The American Ohio and British Vanguard-class boats carry Trident II missiles, with 24 SLBMs on each Ohio and 16 SLBMs on each Vanguard. Each Trident II carries eight to 12 Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs) with ranges up to 7,500 miles.
The French Triomphant boats carry 16 M51 missiles; each M51 carries ten MIRVs and has a range of up to 6,200 miles.
The Chinese ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) fleet consists of at least four (and possibly as many as six) Jin-class (Type 094/094A) SSBNs, as well as the sole Xia class (Type 092) SSBNs.China operates also the sole boat of the Type 032 “Qing” class, a diesel-electric submarine currently as a missile-firing testbed for the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
The Type 032 is the world’s largest conventional submarine, with a submerged displacement of 6,628 tons and a length of 305 feet.
This impressive vessel is armed with a number of 533 to 650-millimeter torpedo tubes, two to three missile silos in the sail, and four vertical launch tubes VLS for cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, and anti-submarine missiles in the forward section.
The submarine also tests new technologies, including torpedoes, missiles, and unmanned undersea vehicles.
James 1:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 1:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelations 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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