The Russian Navy announced yesterday that it had successfully tested the Tsirkon hypersonic missile against a naval target for the first time. The missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate at a “mock” target in the White Sea. As part of live-fire trials, it fired off the hypersonic cruise missile from one of its vertical launch cells. It was the first time the Tsirkon had been trialed for anti-ship warfare, and the weapon “directly hit the seaworthy target located 450 km away” in the Barents Sea, the Defense Ministry said, reported RT.