February 2, 2025: In late 2024 Russia was able to finally install Zircon anti-ship missiles on one of its frigates, the Admiral Golovko. The Zircon missiles are nine meters long and 60 cm in diameter.

In addition to drones, used on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, the large-scale invasion of Ukraine has enabled Russia ...

Admiral Nakhimov will be returned to service so that Moscow can lay claim to operating the largest non-aircraft carrier ...

On the last in Russia's Kirov-class cruiser named Admiral Nakhimov has launched two nuclear reactors. This is a sure sign ...

Key Point: It may be then that the carrier is not being rendered obsolete but is evolving (or regressing) into the role that interwar strategists had in mind for it—a platform... Here’s What ...

the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The crew exercised hitting targets -- mock enemy ships -- with hypersonic Zircon (Tsirkon) missiles at a distance of over 900 kilometers (559 miles ...

russia has already invested the equivalent of $5 billion ... to equip Admiral Nakhimov with as many as 80 launchers for Kalibr missiles or even Zircon hypersonic missiles, but they have also begun ...

The U.S., China, India, and Russia are the only countries to have developed hypersonic missiles, of which Russia's Zircon is reported to be the fastest. Moscow has previously said the Zircon ...