“Hypersonic weapons can move at nine times the speed of sound,” Peishent said.
He called Putin's statement "a chilling threat."
At the end of May, a Zircon hypersonic missile was launched from the Barents Sea as part of testing new types of weapons.
The firing was carried out by the lead frigate of project 22530 "Admiral Gorshkov of the Fleet of the Soviet Union".
The sea target was located in the White Sea at a distance of about 1,000 km.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the target was hit.
On July 31, at a parade in St. Petersburg, Putin announced that the first Zircon would be put on the ship Admiral Gorshkov.