“We have now tested, and successfully, and from the beginning of the year we will be armed with new sea-based hypersonic missiles, Makhov 9.
The flight time will also be 5 minutes for those who give orders, ”RIA Novosti quotes the president.
On November 17, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin on the successful firing of a Zircon hypersonic missile from a Northern Fleet frigate in the White Sea.
In early October, the Russian Navy tested the Zircon rocket from the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine.
The shooting was carried out at a conditional sea target in the water area of the Barents Sea.