Russian Warship Reports Successful Test-Fire Of Its Hypersonic Zircon Missile In The Arctic

Daily Mail: Russia successfully tests hypersonic Zircon missile that Putin boasted is 'without equal' and 'can strike anywhere and evade US defence shield'

* Putin touted the missile system as being unstoppable by US defence systems

* The president has also claimed that the missiles can strike anywhere in the world

* Russia has said it intends to fit submarines and surface ships with the missiles

* Country's defence ministry said the missile successfully hit a target over 220 miles away off the coast of the Barents Sea from a frigate in the White Sea

Russia said on Monday it had successfully tested a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has touted as part of a new generation of missile systems without equal in the world.

The defence ministry said in a statement that the missile had been fired from the Admiral Gorshkov, a warship located in the White Sea.

It traveled at around seven times the speed of sound before hitting a ground target on the coastline of the Barents Sea more than 220 miles away, it claimed.

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