world on our planet due, unfortunately, mainly strategic equilibrium potential major countries - competitors.Geopolitical parity was first broken in 1945, the advent of the US military's arsenal of nuclear weapons.
In 1947, the Soviet Union was able to build an atomic bomb, but the leadership of the country faced with the problem of delivering a warhead to the target.The first temporary measure was copying the American B-29 bombers, at the time served as the main carrier of weapons of mass destruction.
emergence of intercontinental missiles again upset the strategic balance, this time in favor of the USSR.However, ballistic trajectory proved easily predictable, which created the conditions for the destruction of the means of delivery at different stages of the flight.
the first time the problem of low effectiveness of air defense against high-altitude and high-speed purposes faced in 1973, the Israeli armed forces.At a great height above the territory of the Soviet state went multipurpose aircraft MiG-25.All actions are usually used in such cases, including the launch of anti-aircraft missiles, proved futile.Unique ceiling and fantastic at the time the rate is simply not allowed them to catch up with the target.
In the early nineties, scientists, developers in different countries have started research in the field of weapons, which would be difficult to neutralize even in the event of detection of alarm systems.
Developed hypersonic missiles Russia was a response to the American program of Prompt Global Strike (means of instant global impact).
Opposition to US domination in the field of strategic initiatives underway in different directions.
One of them was the creation of warheads that can change the trajectory after separation from the head and reach the goal with unpredictable directions.
Another line of development trudnouyazvimyh delivery vehicles began hypersonic missiles Russia.Their main difference from conventional ballistic missiles is the rate many times higher than the number of M (which corresponds to about 1070 km / h).
first experiments on the creation of new types of weapons, which would be difficult to intercept, began in the eighties.Dyna Soar X-20 was an American unmanned space plane project, starting in stratospheric layers of the atmosphere (at an altitude of about 30 thousand m) with supersonic aircraft.The answer could be a Russian rocket hypersonic aerospace systems "Spiral", capable of speeds up to 7 thousand. Km / h, but soon the two programs have been curtailed.Spending on construction work proved to be unfeasible, even for the US economy.
It took three decades, but the task of maintaining strategic parity has not lost its relevance."Zircon" - the so-called new hypersonic missile Russia.
2013 International Aviation and Space Show in Zhukovsky.Russian-Indian joint venture "BraMosaerospeys" announces plans to create a weapon that does not seize the power of the latest and future missile defense system.
first tests hypersonic missile in Russia showed that it can reach the speed, three times the rate of the US "Tomahawk" at altitudes ranging from 10 meters to 14 kilometers.The combat load of 300 kg, two-stage design.Dimensions: length about 10 meters, a diameter of 700 mm.The total weight at the start of less than 4 tonnes with a shipping container.
basic design for GZR "BrahMos" and parallel development of antiship "Zircon" served as a missile "Onyx" U-800 submarine-based.Design work began in 1999, and in June 2001 at the site in the Indian state of Orissa were produced the first test-firing.It is assumed that new hypersonic missile Russia and India can be run with the class of aircraft MiG-29.
Another alternative system of super-fast weapon called "cold" was tested on the Sara-Shaganskom range in late 1991.The basis power plant in its rocket motor designs used P-VOP 200 with excellent characteristics.The financial crisis is not allowed to complete the test.
