Good March 2019 Youtube Russian Zircon hypersonic missile SUBMARINE launched

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”.

See a transcript of the South Front Youtube here https://southfront.org/russias-zircon-hypersonic-missile-challenges-us-naval-dominance/

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