Russian navy test fires supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock target in the Sea of Japan, a week after two Russian strategic bomber planes flew over Japan for more than seven hours
The P-270 Moskit missile, is a supersonic cruise missile of Soviet origin, capable of destroying a ship within a range of up to 120 km. "In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target," the ministry said in a statement on its Telegram account on Tuesday.
"The target, located at a distance of about 100 kilometres , was successfully hit by a direct hit from two Moskit cruise missiles." The Moskit, whose NATO reporting name is the SS-N-22 Sunburn, is a medium-range supersonic anti-ship cruise missile that has conventional and nuclear warhead capacity, The ministry said the exercise took place in the Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan but did not give more precise coordinates.
The gulf borders the Russian Pacific Fleet headquarters at Fokino and is about 700 kilometers from Japan's northern Hokkaido Island. Japan's PM Kishida, as a member of the G7 nations, will voice solidarity and support for Ukraine following Russia's invasion more than a year ago, foreign ministry says
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