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2023-09-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
On the suspension of the development of the Zmeevik hypersonic missile
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] Interesting details in the comments from the TASS™ source about the suspension of the development of the Zmeevik hypersonic missile system.

Work on creating the “aircraft carrier killer” missile “Zmeevik” has been suspended. A source in the military-industrial complex reported this to TASS.

“Work on the Zmeevik has been frozen, since now all the efforts of the defense industry are aimed at improving all the missile weapons that are already flying,” he said.

According to the agency’s interlocutor, “Zmeevik” is a new missile system, similar in its tactical and technical characteristics to the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile. It is being created, among other things, to destroy sea and land carriers of the new American hypersonic Dark Eagle missile. “In connection with the existing difficulties of the US Department of Defense in creating the Dark Eagle, the government customer received instructions to the developer of Zmeevik to direct all efforts to modernize and improve the weapons used in a special military operation in Ukraine,” the source clarified.

1) Again a head-on comparison with the Chinese DF-21D. Well, not the worst example. Again, another proof that a hypersonic gliding winged unit is a special case of a maneuvering warhead.

2) Linking with the American project of a single hypersonic weapon for the army and navy, however, only the army LRHW is called Dark Eagle, the navy so far only under the abbreviation CPS. There, indeed, not everything is fine. But they are also talking about putting it into service after the first successful test launch (which, however, keeps being postponed and postponed).

3) The reference to the priority of work on improving already flying weapons indirectly points to a possible developer, but we’ll keep our guesses to ourselves. In any case, everyone in the arena is the same. Again, before dismantling LRHW carriers, you should learn to deal with GMLRS and ATACMS carriers.

4) The question remains - what is the state of the Serpentine project, and how long have they been working on it? It was publicly exposed ( https://t.me/vatfor/7888 ) (albeit in the same way as it was frozen now) last summer, but it cannot be ruled out that it was discussed ( https://t.me/nuclear_stormbringer/ 81 ) senior military-political leadership at a well-known meeting to respond to the US withdrawal from the #INF Treaty .

That's all for now, let's continue to monitor the fate of domestic missile affairs.

https://t.me/vatfor/8839 - zinc

Over the past year, priorities have changed. This was also facilitated by the failures of the United States to develop its own hypersonic weapons. The latest tests by the Americans also ended in failure and the current gap of 2-3 years from Russia in hypersound remains.
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