Russia’s navy fired supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock goal within the Sea of Japan, the Russian protection ministry stated on Tuesday.
“In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target,” it stated in a press release on its Telegram account.
“The target, located at a distance of about 100 kilometers (62.14 miles), was successfully hit by a direct hit from two Moskit cruise missiles.”
The P-270 Moskit missile, which has the NATO reporting title or SS-N-22 Sunburn, is a medium-range supersonic cruise missile of Soviet origin, able to destroying a ship inside a spread of as much as 120 km (75 miles).
The firing of the missiles comes per week after two Russian strategic bomber planes, able to carrying nuclear weapons, flew over the Sea of Japan for greater than seven hours in what Moscow stated was a “planned flight”. —Reuters
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