H I Sutton is a writer, illustrator and analyst who specializes in submarines and sub-surface systems. His work can be found at his website Covert Shores
Posted on 09/01/2021 9:02:05 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Satellite images from Maxar taken earlier this month and provided to USNI News confirm that a special purpose ship, Akademik Aleksandrov, is using the facility. And the vessel appears to have a Poseidon round, or related surrogate load, aboard.
The facility is on the Northern shore of the Northern Dvina River on the edge White Sea. Work on the new quay started in 2018 and was substantially completed in 2020. Akademik Aleksandrov has been observed there in July and August. There is also a large building that was recently built adjacent to the new quay and may also be related to Poseidon operations. This specific quay appears directly connected to Poseidon testing activities, according to the imagery.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
Russian Navy?
That’s the very least of our worries.
As opposed to those miniature nuclear torpedoes that are often talked about.
My Granddad served 4 combat patrols aboard USS Gato and took depth charges more than once. Water compression from an explosion is no joke. I wouldn’t like to be underwater when a nuke lights off in the water near me. Sounds like a suicide weapon.
“Sounds like a suicide weapon.”
Well we are discussing the Russians.
Not known for treating their troops or people with normal care.
Check out the Baker and Wigwam tests.
That photo reminds me of Thunderbirds.
“FAB!”
US media and deep-state propaganda likes to portray Russia as a bankrupt, alcoholic nation, living under the boot of Putin and his thugs.
People like that are incapable of developing hypersonic missiles, nuclear torpedos, portable nuclear reactors, and such.
Russians are a highly intelligent and highly organized people - and Putin is attempting to revive their traditional culture and religion, free from the influence of globalism and wokeism.
My fear is most people in Washington DC believe their own propaganda and will make some very stupid mistakes.
Okay. I read the article. What does USNI have their panties in a snit about?
It says it is a “Intercontinental Nuclear-Powered Nuclear-Armed Autonomous Torpedo”
So I guess the sub launches the thing which, nuclear powered, can cruise around for a long time autonomously, and if commanded, can launch some kind of SUBROC type of airborne IBCM or cruise missile?
I’m far more concerned with China and Muslims.
Not to mention our own government.
Russia plans on being able to destroy coastal cities by creating a large enough explosion at depth to create a man-made tidal wave.
20MT could disturb a lot of seawater.
Is it diesel-powered, like their only carrier?
Well sure. If they are doing that, it is Katy Bar The Door anyway because we are going “toe to toe with the Rooskies in thermonuclear war” and hard to see how a man-made tsunami to San Francisco will be worse than an air-burst.
H I Sutton is a writer, illustrator and analyst who specializes in submarines and sub-surface systems. His work can be found at his website Covert Shores
... hard to see how a man-made tsunami to San Francisco will be worse than an air-burst.
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air bursts will bake the shit into the streets, while a tsunami will wash it off.
It’s one of a few ways to use nuclear devices against an enemy without nuclear fallout.
EMP, undersea detonation and enhanced neutron devices.
Undersea detonation places no radiation at the target area because it is the wave that moves, not the water...the water just conducts the wave. The radioactive water stays near the detonation point until it dissipates.
The Poseidon torpedo is actually a nuclear powered drone that travels very slowly at great depth to avoid detection. It is coated with sonar absorbing material.
When activated it heads up the continental shelf at high speed and detonates a 200 megaton warhead. That’s four times larger than the Tsar bomb. It creates an enormous tsunami and wipes out entire coastlines.
Some of the warheads are salted with cobalt and can make an area uninhabitable for centuries. This is Russia’s doomsday weapon.
The sub that carries that torpedo is enormous! Reminds me of the story about the Russians shadowing the USS Triton. Triton was the one-off designed nuke boat that circumnavigated the world submerged with Captain Ed Beach in command. Triton was mothballed because her tactical utility was just about nil.
They don’t have to use any weapons on the U.S. we have democrats in charge of things white flags being made.
The Russian Navy isn’t going to do anything. 😣
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