The Russian Navy’s first Project 22350 frigate, Admiral Gorshkov, has set out on a deployment armed with new Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced Gorshkov’s deployment would see the warship sail in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. Admiral Gorshkov is the lead ship of Gorshkov class frigates was officially commissioned in 2018 and is among the service’s most modern surface combatants.According to Russian state media, Gorshkov’s commanding officer, Captain Igor Krokhmal, said that the warship has been loaded with variants of the Kalibr subsonic cruise missile family, which include anti-ship and land-attack types, as well as Zircons.Neither the Defense Minister nor the commanding officer specified the number of Zircon missiles that the frigate would be carrying on this voyage.In this video Defense Updates analyzes why Admiral Gorshkov armed Zircon may not be a game changer for Russia?#defenseupdates #Zircon #AdmiralGorshkov