This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced by the general director, general designer of the Reutov NPO Mashinostroeniya Alexander Leonov.

According to him, the issue of adopting the missile into service is “purely organizational”.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean was training to launch a missile strike with a Zircon missile at a sea target at a distance of more than 900 km.