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Russia announces a new successful test of its Zircon hypersonic missile

MADRID, 28 May.

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Russia announces a new successful test of its Zircon hypersonic missile

MADRID, 28 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this Saturday a new successful test of a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, which has traveled a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the waters of northwestern Russia.

The missile was fired from the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate in the Barents Sea at a target in the White Sea inlet as part of a broader test of new weapons.

The Zircon is part of a new generation of hypersonic weaponry that Russia has been developing since at least 2018.

Hypersonic weapons can travel at nine times the speed of sound and Russia has conducted previous test launches of the Zircon from warships and submarines in the past year.