Russia Beyond

The Russian military industrial complex has announced the international sale start of its newest mobile radar station. It’s codename ‘59Н6-ТЕ’ (editor’s note: probably no salesman has yet explained to engineers that such a ‘name’ isn’t very good for business) and is the one and only radar on the market able to detect hypersonic targets.

“It locks targets flying at speeds of up to 10,800 km/h. These targets start with hypersonic missiles and end with intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles that will also be able to fly through atmosphere at such speeds in up to five years,” says a source in the military industrial complex.

The engineer specified that, at the moment, only the Russian military has hypersonic missiles (ie. the ant-iship ‘Zircon’ missiles that are being put through various military tests in the Arctic Ocean; all the information about this weapon you can find here), but the military command estimates that the U.S. and Chinese armies will obtain the same type of technology in five-six years at the most.

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