MOSCOW – Russia announced that it has successfully tested the new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, one of the Russian weapons that the president Vladimir Putin presented to the world as “invincible”. “The frigate Admiral Gorchkov launched a hypersonic Zircon missile in the White Sea towards a land target located on the coast of the Barents Sea”, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a note underlining that the target, 350 kilometers away, has been reached. “with success”.
Russia, new test for the Zircon hypersonic missile in the White Sea
The missile, capable of reaching a target of up to one thousand kilometers, should be supplied to Russian military ships and submarines. The first official launch of a Zircon took place in October 2020, on Putin’s birthday who spoke of a “great event for the whole country”.
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