The Pentagon has said that the sunken Russian warship Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles.
The 12,000-ton Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Moskva was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
A senior US defence official confirmed on Friday that Ukrainian forces managed to hit the ship after Russia claimed the ship had suffered an internal explosion due to a fire on board.
Ukraine said they had attacked the vessel in the Black Sea 60 miles south of Odesa with land-based Neptune missiles.
The R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile is developed by the Luch Design Bureau in Kyiv, Ukraine. The missile is an upgraded version of the Soviet Kh-35 anti-ship missile.
R-360 Neptune
| Type: | Anti-ship cruise missile |
| Designer: | Luch Design Bureau |
| Manufacturer: | Luch Design Bureau |
| In service: | March 2021 – present |
| Country of origin: | Ukraine |
| Operators: | Ukraine |
| Operational range: | 300 km (190 mi) |
| Max speed: | Subsonic |
| Missile length: | 5.05 m |
| Missile diameter: | 0.4 m |
| Wingspan: | 1.3 m |
| Missile weight: | 870 kg |
| Warhead weight: | 150 kg |
| Warhead: | High Explosive Fragmentation (HE-FRAG) |
| Launch platform: | Land based |
