US EditionRussia Launches Khabarovsk Sub Designed for Nuclear Drone
- In televised remarks at a Moscow military hospital, Putin said Russia tested the Poseidon drone while running on nuclear power for the first time on Tuesday.
- On Oct 21, General Valery Gerasimov reported a successful Burevestnik test covering 14,000 kilometres in 15 hours, while Vladimir Putin framed such tests as responses to U.S. missile-defense and NATO expansion.
- Russian media report Poseidon is 20m long, 1.8m in diameter, weighs 100 tonnes, and sources in the Russian military-industrial complex say it operates deeper than one kilometre, reaches 70 knots, and carries a two-megaton warhead.
- The announcement came days after the planned Budapest summit collapsed, and Donald Trump, President of the United States, criticized the missile testing as not appropriate urging Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, to end the war.
- Arms-Control experts warn Poseidon breaks nuclear deterrence rules, while Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensoenes cautions `The missile remains in development` and deployment will take time.
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Russia presents the new nuclear missile submarine Khabarovsk at the Sevmash shipyard. On board are nuclear-powered torpedoes called "Poseidon". Thus, an expert orders Putin's step.
The policy of nuclear gunboats
It should come as no surprise that Russia has spent so much money miniaturizing nuclear power plants and equipping its delivery systems with them: 9M730 Burevestnik missiles and Status-6 Poseidon torpedoes. The United States is dispersing its nuclear technology by providing Australia and South Korea with nuclear-powered submarines, and by supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles. But in this arena, the Pentagon is technically outmatched. US Pr…
The submarine can be equipped with a nuclear drone, capable of wiping out coastal areas, according to Russian reports.
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