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[49] [50] According to Russian propaganda, the Poseidon Torpedo may initiate a 500 m high shockwave. [51] Various sources disregard these claims by pointing out the difference between a potential wave generated by the weapon and a naturally occurring tsunami.
In 2018, Russia has released plans for a 20 to 100Mt tsunami bomb, named Status-6 or Poseidon Torpedo, which is realized as a nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed unmanned underwater vehicle with a length of about 24m. According to the plan, the Poseidon Torpedo would initiate a 500m high shockwave.
Russia is building new submarines designed to launch an intercontinental-range nuclear drone-torpedo called Poseidon, which could attack coastal cities.
The motherships for the Poseidon underwater drones are planned to be the 09852 "Belgorod" project submarines, like the "Belgorod", and the 09851 "Khabarovsk" project submarines. [40] According to publications by the Russian state news agency TASS, the submarines can carry up to six Poseidon vehicles at once. [21] These were test launched in ...
Italian news agency La Repubblica claimed NATO had warned of an imminent test of the Russian nuclear torpedo Poseidon. Here’s why that’s unlikely (for now).
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The refit included both removing the cruise missile launch tube bay to make room for a new bay about 18 meters long that is capable of accommodating special operations submarines such as the Losharik or Paltus and lengthening the bow bay to 38 meters to accommodate the new Poseidon nuclear-powered torpedoes.
The Type 209 (German: U-Boot-Klasse 209) is a range of diesel-electric attack submarines developed exclusively for export by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany.Five class variants (Types 209/1100, 209/1200, 209/1300, 209/1400 and 209/1500), including modifications thereof, have been successfully exported to 15 countries, with 68 submarines being built and commissioned to five different ...