Russian Plans for Massive Nuclear Undersea Attack Drone Revealed by Newscast
Apparently, Russia has plans for a long-range autonomous nuclear torpedo capable of carrying a massive warhead that could lay waste to seaports and shower coastal cities with radioactive contamination. The project, called Ocean Multipurpose System ‘Status-6’, is a proposed long-range, high-speed unmanned underwater vehicle developed by Rubin, a St. Petersburg-based submarine design bureau. A document describing the system was revealed in a November 10 Channel One news broadcast of President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with military chiefs in Sochi.
The Channel One news report that revealed the document (shown at about 1:45 in the video).
The document was an overview “of one of the projects that presumably were discussed at the meeting as part of the plan to restore that strategic balance that the US missile defense system so blatantly undermines,” wrote Eugene Miasnikov, a co-author of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, in an analysis post. Miasnikov provided a translation of the document, which included the description of the system as “damaging the important components of the adversary’s economy in a coastal area and inflicting unacceptable damage to a country’s territory by creating areas of wide radioactive contamination that would be unsuitable for military, economic, or other activity for long periods of time.”
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