“The frigate’s crew hit the Caliber cruise missile with a target position located on the Chizh battlefield in the Arkhangelsk region,” the agency reports to TASS.
The Ministry of Defense specified that the shooting was carried out as part of the next stage of factory sea trials.
Earlier it was reported that Admiral Kasatonov, built at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg, will be part of the Russian Navy until the end of 2019.
At the end of August, the Zvezda television channel reported that the frigate had gone to the final stage of factory tests.