{"id":6321,"date":"2020-01-10T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2020-01-10T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T19:28:18","slug":"putin-oversees-russias-test-of-hypersonic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/putin-oversees-russias-test-of-hypersonic-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin oversees Russia&#8217;s test of hypersonic missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin oversees hypersonic missile test near Crimea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday oversaw a naval exercise in the Black Sea that involved multiple missile launches including a new hypersonic missile system, Kinzhal.<\/p>\n<p>Putin watched the maneuvers from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser, <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/62556\" target=\"_blank\">the Kremlin said<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>During the Black Sea drills, Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet and Northern Fleet practiced the launch of Kalibr cruise missiles and the hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile launched by MiG-31 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drills have been held successfully,&#8221; according to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 ships, 1 submarine and over 40 aircraft, including several Tu-95 strategic bombers, took part in the drills.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRIA_Research\/status\/1215710274537132034<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe navy always has been a key component of national defense,\u201d Putin said. \u201cWe will maintain and strengthen our nation\u2019s status as a key naval power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia deployed its first hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles at the end of December. Objects traveling faster than five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5 or 3836 mph, qualify as \u201chypersonic,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian naval maneuvers come amid heightened U.S.-Iran tensions after the U.S. strike last week that killed Iran\u2019s most powerful military commander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin oversees hypersonic missile test near Crimea Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday oversaw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,44,1],"tags":[6,330,31,90,20,63],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-hypersonic","tag-missile","tag-navy","tag-russia","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Putin.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}