Russia successfully test-fires Hypersonic Cruise Missile ‘Zircon’
- The Russian military carried out successful test-firing of its Zircon hypersonic cruise missile recently.
- The missile was launched from the Admiral Gorshkov warship towards a test target set in Arctic waters of the White Sea in northern Russia.
- The missile eliminated its target with a direct hit.
- Hypersonics can travel more than five times the speed of sound and are much harder to track and intercept.