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Good March 2019 Youtube Russian Zircon hypersonic missile SUBMARINE launched

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Russia's is developing and trial deploying the Zircon (or Tsirkon) 3M22 (NATO SS-N-33) hypersonic missile. It is too early to tell how operationally workable and effective it is.

Its main strengths are:
-  its hard to shoot down or react to Mach 8 to 9 speed at high altitude and plunging
-  reported manoeuvrability, and
-  small enough for many "shots" from multiple platforms

Its main weaknesses are:
-  its limited range (maybe only 400km from a submarine, though 1,000 from an aircraft), and
-  light warhead (maybe only 200kg).

In the above Youtube (South Front, March 6, 2019):

-  4 mins 50 secs in - it can be vertically launched from Russian Oscar and Yasen submarines and
    [may be small enough to be 533mm or 650mm torpedo tube launched from Akula or Kilo
     submarines.] 


-  5m 22s - could be launched from Russian submarines to hit US command and control facilities on
    the US Atlantic coast. But given Zircon's limited range [assuming US SOSUS, RAP/FDS and
    ASW platforms on the Atlantic coast] this would put the Russian submarines in danger of
    “detection and destruction”.


Russia may be in a joint venture to help India develop a Zircon-looking BrahMos-2 "HSTDV".

Russian Zircon vs Kinzhal hypersonic missiles (Artwork, table courtesy IDA Strategic Intelligence).
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Pete

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