The drill also involved covert movement
and support from military ships, aircraft
and drones. it quoted russia's pacific
navy as saying..
Japan lays claim to the russian-held
southern curl islands in the nearby sea
of Okhotsik which Tokyo refers to as the
northern territories in a territorial
road dating from the end of World War II, when soviet troops seized them from
japan. The dispute has prevented the two
countries from signing a formal peace
treaty.
A prospective russian hypersonic missile
has been successfully test fired from a
nuclear submarine for the first time, the
military said monday.
The russian defense ministry said that
the Severodvisk submarine performed two
launches of the Zircon cruise missile at
mock targets in the berent sea. It first test fired Zircon from the
surface and then launched another
missile from a submerged position in the
white sea.
The launch marked Zircon's first launch
from a submarine. It previously has been
repeatedly test fired from a navy
frigate most recently in july.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has
said Zircon would be capable of flying
at 9 times the speed of sound and have a
range of 1,000 kilometers, 620 miles. Putin has emphasized that its deployment
will significantly boost russian
military capability.
Officials said Zircon's tests are to be
completed later this year and it will be
commissioned by the russian navy in 2022. Zircon is intended to arm russian
cruisers, frigates and submarines. It is
one of several hypersonic missiles under
development in russia.
the kremlin has
made modernizing the country's arsenals
a top priority amid the tensions with
the west that followed russia's 2014
annexation of ukraine's crimean
peninsula.
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