The frigate Admiral Gorshkov performed a test launch of the Zircon in the Barents Sea and the hypersonic missile hit a sea target at a range of about 1,000km, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
"Today, the lead frigate of Project 22350, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov, fired a hypersonic cruise missile 'Zircon' from the Barents Sea at a naval target position located in the White Sea (a southern inlet of the Barents Sea). The rocket firing was carried out as part of a test of new kinds of weapons," the ministry said.