A Russian 650 mm torpedo model.
With highly developed defense science and technology, Russian military engineers not only dream of producing weapons like those in science fiction movies but also wish to revive unfinished projects that were once completed.
Nuclear torpedoes have the ability to create tsunamis
The Russian Ministry of Defense is considering developing a torpedo model with a nuclear warhead capable of destroying enemy coastal targets with terrible destructive power.
In 1951, Soviet Academy of Sciences academician Andrey Sakharov designed a similar weapon model called Project T-15.
The T-15 is expected to be equipped on Project 627 `Kit` submarines, the Soviet Union’s first attack nuclear submarine class.
A Soviet naval expert panel proposed canceling the T-15 project and instead focusing on perfecting the smaller T-5 variant, which is equipped with an RDS-9 nuclear warhead and can be easily deployed on ships.
`We have a tendency to review projects that were not implemented in the past. Nuclear physicist Sakharov’s ideas are being studied,` said Russia’s top torpedo designer Shamil Aliev.
According to experts, if this type of torpedo is built, it will have the ability to destroy enemy coastal targets by creating a tsunami when a 100 Megaton thermonuclear warhead is detonated in the seabed.
Cruise missile with nuclear engine
Two super weapons were developed by Russia according to Soviet-era ideas
Russia test-fired the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile.
Research into building nuclear engines for rockets was started by Soviet scientists in the mid-20th century. By 1978, the Soviet Union began testing the first reactor for nuclear rocket engines
By the early 1980s, Soviet experts realized that building nuclear engines for rockets required huge costs.
At that time, the Soviet defense industry had made remarkable progress in creating high-performance liquid-fueled rocket engines, so the nuclear engine research project for rockets was closed.
In his State of the Union address on March 1, President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow had successfully developed many `super weapons`, the most prominent of which are cruise missiles equipped with nuclear engines with `close range`.
This cruise missile equipped with a nuclear engine is designated by Russia as Burevestnik, has a similarity to the Russian X-101 missile or the American Tomahawk, but has major differences with the nuclear engine, helping
The Russian military has just released a video showing Russian engineers testing Burevestnik cruise missiles in a large factory.
Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile
Actual image of the Burevestnik cruise missile.
Russian engineers said that despite successful testing, the frame design of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile still needs to be revised.
Nguyen Hoang
