Posted on 10/04/2022 11:44:56 AM PDT by EBH
A top-of-the-line Russian nuclear-powered submarine has gone missing from its harbor in the Arctic along with its rumored "doomsday weapon," according to multiple reports.
NATO has reportedly warned members that Russia's Belgorod submarine no longer appeared to be operating out of its White Sea base, where it has been active since July. Officials warned that Russia may plan to test Belgorod's "Poseidon" weapons system, a drone equipped with a nuclear bomb that Russia has claimed is capable of creating a "radioactive tsunami," according to Italian media.
The drone can be deployed from the submarine at any time and detonated at a depth of 1 kilometer near a coastal city. Russian state media has claimed the device can create a 1,600-ft. wave that smashes into the coast and irradiates it.
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We here in DC appreciate your thoughtfulness.
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They claim..
Do you know how much water has to be displaced to create a wave that high?
They cant make a BOMB big enough to do that say nothing about a torpedo.
But they got some real dandy hyper sonic thingys that would reach any of the shore cities in a matter of ten minutes or less.
Boomers by design are exceptionally quiet thus hard to track. When in hide mode, they are likely barely making steerage way, 2 or 3 knots. They hide in the arctic ocean, probably under the ice at times. When under the ice, a boomer is very difficult to locate or track unless an attack sub collides with it.
Once or twice I've read some claims about this Poseidon torpedo. IIRC it is claimed to have a nuclear propulsion system capable of several thousand miles going slow and quiet. No idea if this is accurate. If so, hard to detect.
Several years ago, the US replaced the P-3 turboprop sub hunter with the jet P-8 I believe it is. Lots of good reasons to do this. However, the P-8 omitted the magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) that detects ripples in the earth's magnetic field caused by a submerged metallic structure. This omission leaves the P-8 without one sharp arrow in its bag of tricks.
So many dang trolls here that should be zotted.
better than fryin chickens in the barnyard...
Nor shall we. The lucky ones will be near the epicenter, perhaps with the time to pour a stiff drink, say a prayer, and enjoy the light show for a few milliseconds, before their bodies are vaporized.
Cheers!
Chin, chin!
Salut!
Whatever anyone says in their native tongue as a toast.
Moving out of port before the winter ice sets in?
Trying to scare Biden....assuming he knows what’s going on, a big “IF?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX8FTGGXjyk
Do your own calculations.
This test was done in 1946.
They sure gave those ships a hell of a nice shower though.
It didn’t disappear.
The Russians know exactly were it is.
Well some of our parts are made in China. ; )
“Love the keywords this one triggered...”
Can’t be a series thread...there’s no “boom” in the keywords.
Can somebody remedy that?. I’m on the wagon.
Psalm nailed it in comment #2. Our advanced fleet systems know exactly where it is and at all times.
As an aside, who’s the keyword troll idiot?
Maybe if we give the Ukrainians twenty or thirty billion dollars they can find it for us.
It was the Russian version of the Philadelphia Experiment.
The truth is - we (military-industrial complex/defense contractors) use this sort of panic to fund our extravagant and bloated weapons development since 1945. The fact that the Soviets/Russians/whomever are prone to promoting their Potemkin village frauds only gives us fuel for the fire.
Russia possesses an estimated 6,300 nuclear warheads as of 2022, the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in the world; the second-largest stockpile is the United States’ 5,428 warheads. Russia’s deployed missiles (those actually ready to be launched) number about 1,588, second to the United States’ 1,644.
The Russians are just as aware as we are that an attack on either continent is going to trigger a response and the whole world is going up in smoke, will poison with radiation, or is going to stave the world to death over the next few years. And they are going to trust one nudet for this? A 1600 foot tital wave is not even close to the damage over 1600 ICBM’s are going to cause. This is stupid.
wy69
dead fish
Submarines are of no value just sitting at a dock in a harbor.
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