It is very odd that Russia potentially operationalizing and repeatedly employing hypersonic cruise missiles (3M22 Tsirkon) since December 2023 has not become a subject of greater discussion.

Is it standard for Russian hardware (i.e. individual parts) to be marked (hand-scribed at that) with the model (e.g. 3M22)? Seems kind of weird.

Has Ukraine reported shooting them down? Also, what’s is the estimated unit cost? I saw a range of “$5-$210 million”. Seems fairly imprecise.

Are they actually hypersonic or just kinzals?