South Africa won't be a test site for its 'unstoppable' new missile, Russia says
Russian military leaders appeared to have floated the idea of doing a real ZIrcon launch during exercises. That is definitely off the cards, they now say.
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Russian military leaders appeared to have floated the idea of doing a real ZIrcon launch during exercises. That is definitely off the cards, they now say.
Russia has said it will not test fire a hypersonic missile during joint naval drills with China and South Africa, contradicting earlier reports in Russian state media. A senior Russian naval official told a news conference in Richards Bay, on South Africa’s east coast, that the country had no plans to fire the Zircon missile…
The resolution would also require the Biden administration to review US relations with South Africa.
A frigate that carries the weapon, the Admiral Gorshkov, is in South African waters — one of several Russian ships deployed to Exercise Mosi II
South Africa is under fire for hosting joint naval exercises with Russia during the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, with critics saying it will be a propaganda victory for Moscow. But what does the third participant in the drills, China, have to gain from the tripartite exercises taking place this week? Some analysts…