Russia said on Sunday that it had fired a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea and that Sukoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers had carried out strikes as part of joint ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She joined ...

Zircon is the world's first hypersonic missile that air defense systems cannot shoot down. Russian ships will be armed with it as early as 2022. In any case, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ...