MOSCOW: A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons has held exercises in the Norwegian Sea, the defense ministry said on Tuesday.
\n\u201cThe crew of the frigate \u2018Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov\u2019 conducted an air defense exercise in the Norwegian Sea,\u201d the ministry said.
\n\u201cThe crew… conducted an exercise to repel the means of an air attack of a simulated enemy in the Norwegian Sea.\u201d
\nLast week, President Vladimir Putin sent the frigate to the Atlantic Ocean armed with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles, a signal to the West that Russia will not back down over the war in Ukraine.
\nThe frigate is armed with Zircon missiles which Russia says fly at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of over 1,000 km.
\nRussia sees the weapons as a way to pierce increasingly sophisticated US missile defenses which Putin has warned could one day shoot down Russian nuclear missiles.
\nFormer Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week warned the United States that the hypersonic missiles would soon be close to NATO\u2019s shores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW: A Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons has held exercises in the Norwegian Sea, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. \u201cThe crew of the frigate \u2018Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov\u2019 conducted an air defense exercise in the Norwegian Sea,\u201d the ministry said. \u201cThe crew… conducted an exercise to repel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n