Russia test-launched its Tsirkon hypersonic missile from a ship for the first time when the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov fired the weapon from the Barents Sea against a ground target in January, two sources in defense circles of Russia’s North-Western Federal District told TASS on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a series of meetings on military buildup and called to increase Navy capabilities. He said specific attention should be paid to warships and submarines armed with hypersonic Tsirkon missiles in order to preserve strategic stability.
New trials of the advanced Tsirkon hypersonic antiship missile will take place at a Russian Northern Fleet sea range before the yearend, a source in uniformed agencies of the Northwestern Federal District told TASS.
The Project 1155 large antisubmarine warfare (ASW )ship Marshal Shaposhnikov (NATO reporting name: Udaloy-class) and the Project 949A Antey nuclear-powered submarine Irkutsk (Oscar-II-class) being upgraded for Russia’s Pacific Fleet will be able to launch advanced Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said.
On July 28, 2026, Russia’s Sevmash shipyard has floated out the nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Ulyanovsk, marking the completion of the vessel’s hull-construction phase and
On August 14, the frigate Admiral Amelko of the project 22350, also known as the Gorshkov-class after the first vessel, was launched at the Severnaya
The Russian nuclear-powered Kirov class cruiser RFS Admiral Nakhimov was observed on August 18th departing the Sevmash shipyard at Severodvinsk and headed into the White
As almost every year, December brought interesting news about the Russian Navy with several new vessels launched or commissioned into the fleet…
Russia has spent the last 15 years steadily modernizing and rearming its navy. The work is intended to recover it from the post-Cold War low
The frigate Admiral Isakov was launched in St. Petersburg. This is the fourth vessel of Project 22350 for the Russian Navy.
