Russia Successfully Test-Fires ‘Tsirkon’ Hypersonic Missile

The Russian military successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic.
The missile was fired from the frigate Admiral Gorshkov in the White Sea.
It launch accurately hit the naval target 450 km away in the Barents Sea at a speed of over Mach 8 or around 10,000 kilometers per hour
This was the third test of the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in 2020. First test was held in January followed by the second in October 2020.
Tsirkon ground-and-sea-based hypersonic rocket can fly at nine times the speed of sound and hit underwater and ground targets more than 1,000 kilometers away.