In this photograph taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service connected Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, a caller Zircon hypersonic cruise rocket is launched by a submarine of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. A prospective Russian hypersonic rocket has been successfully test-fired from a atomic submarine for the archetypal time. The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that the Zircon rocket was launched from the Severodvinsk submarine and deed a designated mock people successful the Barents Sea. The motorboat marked Zircon's archetypal motorboat from a submarine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

In this photograph taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service connected Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, a caller Zircon hypersonic cruise rocket is launched by a submarine of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. A prospective Russian hypersonic rocket has been successfully test-fired from a atomic submarine for the archetypal time. The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that the Zircon rocket was launched from the Severodvinsk submarine and deed a designated mock people successful the Barents Sea. The motorboat marked Zircon's archetypal motorboat from a submarine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

MOSCOW – A prospective Russian hypersonic rocket has been successfully test-fired from a atomic submarine for the archetypal time, the subject said Monday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Severodvinsk submarine performed 2 launches of the Zircon cruise rocket astatine mock targets successful the Barents Sea.

It archetypal test-fired Zircon from the surface, and past launched different rocket from a submerged presumption successful the White Sea.

The motorboat marked Zircon's archetypal motorboat from a submarine. It antecedently has been repeatedly test-fired from a navy frigate, astir precocious successful July.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Zircon would beryllium susceptible of flying astatine 9 times the velocity of dependable and person a scope of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Putin has emphasized that its deployment volition importantly boost Russian subject capability.

Officials said Zircon's tests are to beryllium completed aboriginal this twelvemonth and it volition beryllium commissioned by the Russian navy successful 2022.

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Zircon is intended to limb Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines. It is 1 of respective hypersonic missiles nether improvement successful Russia.

The Kremlin has made modernizing the country’s arsenals a apical precedence amid the tensions with the West that followed Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.

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