Putin presents the Poseidon missile: unequalled nuclear energy | EUROtoday

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This time with out sporting a army jacket, Vladimir Putin publicizes one other profitable missile check. This is the “Poseidon”, which for the Russian president, in a swimsuit and tie subsequent to the troopers of the 18th Combined Army of the Southern District, has no opponents: “There is nothing like it in the world”.

It is a nuclear-powered underwater torpedo, able to triggering a radioactive ocean wave movement to make coastal cities uninhabitable, in addition to destroying wildlife. «For the primary time – says Putin – we managed not solely to launch it from a service submarine, but in addition to launch the nuclear vitality unit on which this gadget spent a sure period of time. «It’s an enormous success»

An influence which might be superior to that of the Sarmat, “our most promising intercontinental missile”. The latter, developed since 2011, has not but entered service: «But it is going to arrive quickly» says the Russian president on this regard.

Announcements which might be added to the one on October 27 relating to the Burevestnik missile, “another invincible weapon according to Putin”. And all of that are a part of the situation of stress with the United States over developments within the conflict in Ukraine. A couple of weeks in the past, in reality, American President Trump introduced that he needed to carry restrictions on Ukrainians from utilizing long-range Western weapons to hit Russian refineries and crops.

And not solely that, as a result of the improvements introduced by Putin might be used to place strain on the USA relating to the negotiations for the New Start treaty. It is an settlement, signed in 2010 and entered into pressure in 2011, on the discount of nuclear weapons between the 2 international locations. It will expire subsequent February and Moscow’s intention is to increase it.