Russia conducts another test of its hypersonic missile “Tsirkon”

Russia already has a new strategic weapon in its arsenal, the Avangard hypersonic missile.

Russia would be thinking of equipping ships and submarines with this long-range weapon.

Russia carried out a new test of its hypersonic cruise missile “Tsirkon” from a ship in the Barents Sea against a target in the waters of the White Sea, its Ministry of Defense reported on May 28.

According to the official note, the missile was fired by the frigate “Admiral Gorshkov”, as during other tests carried out last year and this time it hit the target squarely “at a distance of 1,000 kilometers,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

In addition, Russia plans to equip with the “Tsirkon” both surface ships and submarines.

File photo showing Russian President Vladimir Putin (2L) during a visit to a submarine.

Photo:

Mikhail Klimentev. Eph

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These launches coincide with the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine and are part of the final phase of testing the Russian hypersonic missile, which the Navy could begin receiving this year.

According to the Russian authorities, the new missile can develop a speed nine times greater than the speed of sound and hit land and sea targets at a range of more than a thousand kilometers.

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