Launched by a submarine, it would create “wide areas of radioactive contamination”, the document said.
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The channels later removed the footage, which was shot during a meeting on Monday in Sochi.Its true that a few secret information was caught by the camera and therefore it was subsequently removed, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said late Wednesday. So the leak may not have been accidental.
Also depicted as a potential carrier for Status-6 is the secretive Khabarovsk nuclear submarine, rumored to be a derivative of the new Yasen-class nuclear-powered attack sub, but is catalogued in Russian Federation only as Project 09851.
Status 6 itself appears to be a enormous torpedo-shaped robotic mini-submarine – in other words an underwater drone – that can travel at speeds of 100 knots (115mph) and is so perfectly cloaked by stealth technology it would be invisible to acoustic tracking devices. The design is done in such a manner that it can bypass any existing missile defense system including North Atlantic Treaty Organisation radars.
Putin, he said, is “not our friend”, and is not even attempting to be. “We excluded areas, which had been indicated by FSA commanders as being under their control”, Putin said in an interview with Russian and Turkish media.
The USA is developing the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system to counter the perceived threat of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from Iran or another so-called “rogue” state. Under the plan, air defence missiles will eventually be sited on land in Romania and Poland.
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 USA missile defense system so blatantly undermines”, wrote Eugene Miasnikov, a co-author of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, in an analysis post.
Not to be outdone, Putin further said that Russian Federation will have its own missile defence programme in the future, although he said his country’s focus right now is really developing offensive weapons.
According to state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the damaging power caused by the warhead of the brand new torpedo would match the description.
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This type of weapon would ensure “that everything living is going to be killed”, the newspaper said – there would not be any survivors in bunkers. Such a bomb would theoretically guarantee total decimation of everything within its range, as the radioactive cobalt has a half-life of over 5 years (this is why it’s never actually been tested).
