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What the 3M22 Zircon is made of

0 documented parts, from recovered wreckage. Each part gives its marking, maker and country where known, and links the record it comes from. The system itself: 3M22 Zircon.

Sources

Reported parts

  • Radar seeker — 3B222 active radar homing head, made by NPP Radar MMS (St Petersburg) source
  • Onboard computer — Baget-83 onboard digital computer by KB Korund-M; HUR calls it typical of Russian ballistic missiles source
  • Sustainer motor — 3L2211 solid-propellant rocket motor, NPO Iskra (Perm) source
  • Booster (launch engine) — Solid-propellant launch motor attributed to PZ Mash / Permsky Zavod Mashinostroitel; separates before the sustainer ignites source
  • Steering actuators — 3B915 electro-hydraulic steering units by TsNIIAG driving folding aerodynamic control surfaces; the whole tail section is titanium source
  • Protective fairing — Nose fairing carrying small orientation thrusters for initial course alignment, jettisoned after launch source
  • Onboard countermeasures — 3B228 radio-technical countermeasure (self-protection jamming) system by KNIRTI source
  • Power supply — T-657 chemical power source (battery) by Energia PJSC source
  • Switching and control units — SADI 468331.008 BZPT unit and SADI.468364 onboard equipment switching unit, both NPO Mashinostroyeniya source
  • Structural fibre — Rusar para-aramid threads from Kamenskvolokno source
  • US-origin RF amplifier — TGA2704 amplifier, TriQuint Semiconductor (now Qorvo), United States; HUR does not say how it reached Russian production source
  • US-origin FPGA — Altera Cyclone II EP2C5T144I8N field-programmable gate array (Altera, now Intel), United States source
  • Russian passive parts — SP4-8V measuring potentiometer by NII Girikond; one further microchip unidentified source
  • Component markings (first combat debris) — Kyiv forensic institute found fragments laser-engraved "3L22", steering-mechanism bolts marked "26" and production dates of late 2023–2024 on debris from the 7 February 2024 strike; some boards were hand-assembled source

Part records and photos: HUR War & Sanctions, Ukraine's Defence Intelligence database of foreign components found in Russian weapons, and the other sources named on each part. A marking, date code or country is given as the source records it.