Russia to Equip New Nuclear Submarines With Hypersonic Missiles

Russia to Equip New Nuclear Submarines With Hypersonic Missiles
Alexei Rakhmanov, President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, delivers a speech, Russia, on Aug. 23, 2019. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
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Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia’s largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday.

“Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will ... be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a regular basis,” Alexei Rakhmanov, chief executive officer of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told RIA.