Ukraine has the necessary means to shoot down Russian anti-ship hypersonic missiles ZM22 Zircon, says the spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Illia Yevlash. As Yevlash explained, the speed of a hypersonic weapon is more than Mach 5. Mach 1 is about 1.2 thousand kilometers per hour. “This is a very fast weapon. When we talk about Zircons, it’s approximately Mach 8-9. It’s incredibly fast. However, when these missiles enter the strike trajectory, their speed decreases. It becomes subsonic. Somewhere around Mach 4.5,” said the AFU spokesman. He added that when the sp…