“We are starting mass production of Zircon missiles, we have actually put it into service, this year this will already be documented,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister.
Production of other Kinzhal hypersonic missiles also continues, Shoigu noted.
The contracts signed by the Ministry of Defense at the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum concern, among other things, the supply of S-500 systems and Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, the head of the department said.
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.