Putin described the weapon as a. The nuclear powered cruise missile program was announced by russian federation president vladimir putin on march 1 2018 during an address to the federal assembly. The russian president did not specify when the navy would receive the new nuclear weapons but suggested that day was drawing closer.
The new weapons include the poseidon underwater nuclear drone designed to be carried by submarines and the tsirkon zircon hypersonic cruise missile which can be deployed on surface ships. It was the center of a nuclear incident in august last year when a nuclear powered missile is believed to have exploded. The village of nyonoksa in russia s arctic north has been evacuated.
A reactor that powers one of these weapons might have created possibly one of the worst nuclear. And there is a problem. Yes you read that right.
Russia has a nuclear powered cruise missile. Whether any nation would risk nuclear war by going after an opponent s strategic weapons is. How a russian nuclear cruise missile could entangle the world in nuclear war by michael peck key point.
We can t know for sure what was on vladimir putin s mind last week when he boasted of russia developing an invincible nuclear powered cruise missile a nuclear torpedo and other strategic weapons. Whether any nation would risk nuclear war by going after an opponent s strategic weapons is a valid question. The burevestnik is one of the six new russian strategic weapons unveiled by russian president vladimir putin on 1.
Ssc x 9 skyfall is a russian experimental nuclear powered nuclear armed cruise missile under development for the russian armed forces the missile is claimed to have virtually unlimited range. Petrel nato reporting name. The 9m730 burevestnik russian.
