Posted on 11/17/2015 9:59:10 AM PST by amorphous
While the eyes of the world are on ISIS, Russia is creating weapons unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Plans for a giant self-propelled nuclear torpedo that can create a giant tsunami more than 1,000 feet tall were recently "leaked by mistake" by the Russian media. Apparently the warheads on these torpedos are designed to create so much radiation "that everything living will be killed" - including those that try to survive the attack by hiding in underground shelters. These "robotic mini-submarines" would have a range of up to 10,000 kilometers and would be able to evade all existing U.S. detection systems. To say that such a weapon would be a "game changer" would be a massive understatement.
I know that you are not just going to take my word for any of this. So like I do in all of my articles, I am going to carefully document what I am saying.
The reason why we know about the plans for this new nuclear torpedo is because they were displayed on Russian state television for a few moments during a recent broadcast. According to Russian officials, this was an "accident".
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I just prefer my doom porn a bit more plausable. This concept sounds like Barry’s climate change nuts in Hollywierd got access to the internet and had an orgasm. ;)
About a gigaton. This is propaganda.
The Tsar Bomba was scaled back because after about 50-60 MT yield the energy produced would be mostly wasted. It was detonated at about 15,000 feet and the fireball touched the ground and the top of the fireball was at the tropopause. A larger bomb could be built but what is the point? It is a very inefficient use of weapon material. There would be little question about who did it until other countries developed the same capability.
I live seven tenths of mile from the shoreline, so I’ll believe it when I see it.
200,000,000 Mt yield didn’t do it in the past...
Sounds like someone recently read Directive 51 by John Barnes and picked up on the pure fusion weapon idea used in the story. It creates a short lived, intense fallout in sea water from neutron irradiation of sodium.
I don’t know if this is the drone sub that was previously reported or if it is the drone sub that carries this torpedo but the drone aspect means the following:
1. It’s ability to stay underwater indefinitely is alarming.
2. Because something will go wrong while its waiting and nobody is on board to fix it.
Those drone cars have their share of bugs.
An EMP nuke would be a whole lot easier, using existing technology and delivery devices.
He did quote a number of other sources, and I didn't recall seeing any of "his back of the napkin" calculations.
One of them it this guy (Konstantin Sivkov):
He is a Russian military analyst advocating the triggering of Yellowstone and the San Andreas fault.
Offshore Florida it would be easy as its only 200 deep for over 100 miles, a subsurface burst would be concentrated in shoving a lot of water sideways. Florida would be toast as it is only a huge sandbar. On the west coast would be a lot different matter, the continental shelf drops odd propitiously and the shoreline is mountainous.
The use of nukes to make tidalwaves is much more a form of geological layout than nucliar yield.
As a side note Fukushima might be the best modern example of such an experiment. The seismograpic records indicate a possible dual warhead offshore.
As an air-burst, yes, most of the energy would go into the upper atmosphere.
Let's say a 100MT bomb detonated on the sea floor. Say, 60 miles offshore from Los Angeles, where Google Earth shows places up to 5,000 feet deep. The tamping effect of the water above it would let a lot of the shock-wave energy go into the shelf.
What would be the effect of that on the San Andreas fault?
AlGore, help me!
On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).
It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.
It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod" and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.
Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".
Something with that kind of performance would require nuclear propulsion too!
BS!
Sensationalist nonsense from the uninformed.
Whoever wrote this claptrap knows nothing about nuclear weapons.
Yeah, I’m not sure the advantage of creating a Tsunami. Have to think about it for awhile.
It is not a giant torpedo, crimminy! It is a torpedo with a ‘dirty’ bomb warhead, jointly created and tested in Siberia by Russia and the US.
The warhead is intended to make an area uninhabitable, not make a tsunami of any size. It likely travels underwater until it reaches a certain depth then pops up, rockets to land, and explodes.
Be sure to let us know. :-)
I've heard this as well.
Move!
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