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Russia tested Poseidon nuclear torpedo capable of destroying cities with radioactive tsunamis: Putin
The New York Post ^ | October 29, 2025 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 10/29/2025 6:05:50 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis.

The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a “huge success.”

“For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: bunnydroppings; lying; navy; putin; radioactive; snake; torpedo; wonderweapon

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1,600 foot radioactive tsunamis, eh?

So how exactly does that "nuclear power unit" work?

Seems that Putin has dementia now...


1 posted on 10/29/2025 6:05:51 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

One meeeelionn dollars....

Our frickin’ laser sharks will destroy them before they activate...


2 posted on 10/29/2025 6:09:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Timber Rattler

And this is the person so many here are praising, one who threatens to destroy our cities so that he can have a free hand to subjugate Ukraine.


3 posted on 10/29/2025 6:15:48 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

Why is United States with $38,000,000,000,000 debt on necks of our children and grandchildren, obligated to BORROW more debt to defend an Eastern European country with which we have no defense treaties?


4 posted on 10/29/2025 6:22:15 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship! .... Bhagavad Geeta)
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To: Timber Rattler

Don’t need a torpedo...

Load a freighter with the appropriate small nuke and sail into the Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, Massachusetts Bay, or one of the Great Lakes...

Should result in 400-1000 foot surfing possibilities...

Hmmm... I seem to remember reading about that type of surfing 40 years ago...


5 posted on 10/29/2025 6:27:29 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Timber Rattler
Very scary stuff, huh kids? Aaooooo!


6 posted on 10/29/2025 6:35:32 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Timber Rattler

Vladimir displays his desperateness for the world to see ... things must not be going that well for him in his Ukraine war ...


7 posted on 10/29/2025 6:36:59 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Timber Rattler

You surround the fissile material with strontium or cobalt. In the case of Poseidon it’s cobalt. The detonation causes new isotopes to form, one being cobalt-60.

We use cobalt-60 to sterilize medical products, but in much lower doses, 25 kilogram, than would be the case with a salted bomb.

The nuclear power unit is a small, conventional nuclear reactor.

It’s helpful to look things up, even casual internet surfing will tell you what I just did.


8 posted on 10/29/2025 6:41:27 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: catnipman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l8PKyf3Hkw

Killzone🔴The Cauldron🔥Day Three: Temporary Ceasefire And First POWs 🎯Military Summary For 2025.10.29

Pokrovsk and Kupiansk now in total encirclement. Two cauldrons, estimated 5,000 Ukies surrounded in each cauldron. Surrender pamphlets dropped on the encircled Ukies giving them hours to surrender or be destroyed.

If you believe western MSM the Ukues are “ winning”, you have been deceived.


9 posted on 10/29/2025 8:24:09 PM PDT by delta7
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To: Timber Rattler

Hitler did this in WWII.

He would say the Germans were working on a weapon that would win the war.
The Germans bought into it. Of course it was all a lie.


10 posted on 10/29/2025 8:49:17 PM PDT by POGO163
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To: delta7

These are the lies on Russian TV.


11 posted on 10/29/2025 8:50:15 PM PDT by POGO163
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To: Timber Rattler

“”So how exactly does that “nuclear power unit” work”

The Soviets launched a nuclear powered satellite in the 1980s they were very small fast fission sodium cooled reactor with cores the size of coke cans. The minimum mass of a Pu239 core with a reflector is under ten kg. Even a bare Pu mass only needs 12 kg or so to go crit.

This torpedo is 2 meters across plenty of room for a small fast spectrum reactor in the tens of megawatts size with a core life of years. Remember the USA also in the 1980s had the NR1 mini sub it was sized for humans not weapons it’s small PWR reactor was the size of a small beer keg and the core was paint can sized. Nukes can be very small even smaller if you don’t have to shield gamma and neutrons from humans it’s the shielding that is mass intensive the seawater around a doomsday UUV is shielding enough if this launched from outside of a manned submarine and who cares if the launching vehicle is itself a unmanned UUV. It wouldn’t be hard to automate a kilo class sub for a one way trip out of harbor into deep enough water to let the nuke UUV go and who cares what happens to the kilo UUV.


12 posted on 10/29/2025 10:05:53 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Timber Rattler
Seems that Putin has dementia now...

Putin, just like in the end of the war the nazis, keeps announcing new "wonder-weapons" (Wunderwaffe) while Russia has trouble producing enough basic weapons, like shells, missiles and tanks, instead relying on deliveries from countries like North Korea

As to Russian "wonder-weapons", many like the Armata tank, never seem to be actually produced

Putin in 2023: This year, the first launchers of the Sarmat missile system, equipped with the new heavy missile, are entering combat duty.

Putin in 2025: The Sarmat intercontinental-range missile will soon enter combat duty.


13 posted on 10/30/2025 2:42:10 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: Timber Rattler

Blah blah blah..... whatever. I believe a tranny lover killed Charlie Kirk as much this fear porn bs.


14 posted on 10/30/2025 6:13:18 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Timber Rattler

The sub is no problem. Nuclear subs have been running around for decades. I don’t buy the “radioactive tsunami bit. There is little net movement of water in a tsunami. It’s more like a pebble dropped in the water. The ripple moves out without net movement of the initially disturbed water. A submarine is also problematic. I wouldn’t want to be in a sub even a thousand miles from an underwater nuclear shock wave. It would have a mighty loud ‘ping’.


15 posted on 10/30/2025 6:27:54 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those [Leftists] struggling with inferiority complexes)
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