{"id":1038,"date":"2021-11-29T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:27:25","slug":"russian-navy-test-fires-hypersonic-missile-in-the-white-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Russian navy test-fires hypersonic missile in the White Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 Russia\u2019s navy has successfully test-fired a prospective hypersonic missile, the military said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defense Ministry said the Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the White Sea launched the Zircon cruise missile, hitting a practice target 400 kilometers (215 nautical miles) away. The launch was the latest in a series of tests of Zircon, which is set to enter service next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Zircon would be capable of flying at nine times the speed of sound and have a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Putin has emphasized that its deployment will significantly boost the capability of Russia\u2019s military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zircon is intended to arm Russian cruisers, frigates and submarines. It is one of several hypersonic missiles under development in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kremlin has made modernizing the country\u2019s arsenals a top priority amid the tensions with the West that followed Russia\u2019s 2014 annexation of Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 Russia\u2019s navy has successfully test-fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}