The Zircon is capable of travelling twice as fast as the Royal Navy's Sea Ceptor missile (pictured) which would be responsible for shooting it down
Daily Mail: Russia successfully tests 'unstoppable' 4,600mph hypersonic weapon that is faster than ANY global anti-missile system
* Russia has launched five successful flights of the hypersonic jet, say reports
* The weapon cannot be stopped by the Navy's current defences, experts say
* Zircon could render Navy's new £6.2billion ($7.9billion) aircraft carriers useless
* Missile is being tested and could be fitted to Russian cruisers by 2018
Russia has launched five successful flights of a hypersonic jet that is capable of destroying an aircraft carrier with a single impact, according to a new report.
The Zircon cruise missile travels between 3,800mph and 4,600mph - five to six times the speed of sound - and puts Russia 'half a decade' ahead of the US', the report says.
This makes it faster than any anti-missile system, including those that are expected to appear in the next two decades.
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Update: Race for Hypersonic Superiority: Russia Over Half-a-Decade Ahead of the US (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: Oh oh .... people are now getting concern. But testing is different from manufacturing and deployment .... and Russia is probably still far-away from having this system being successfully deployed. But .... the alarm bells are now ringing.