Three months after a major and still somewhat mysterious rocket explosion in Russia’s far north which caused radiation levels to spike at least sixteen times above normal, President Putin confirmed in statements Thursday that his military is developing a weapon that has “no equal in the world,” according to Interfax news agency.
“The very fact of possessing such unique technologies is today the most important reliable guarantee of peace on the planet,” Putin is reported to have said while meeting with the families of those killed, Interfax reports further. It’s believed that the blast was the result of a failed experimental test of a hypersonic cruise missile powered by a nuclear core.
Prior statements of top Russian officials indicated that the Aug. 8 radiological accident at the northern port city of Severodvinsk had involved a “small-scale nuclear reactor” and had further confirmed an explosion that centered on an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine”.
This information was revealed despite an initial attempt at covering up the radioactive nature of the accident in the days after the explosion:
Russia covered up the deadly nuclear reactor explosion in August during the salvage at sea of one of Vladimir Putin’s new superweapons, a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Skyfall, a senior State Department official disclosed.
There had been an alarming run on iodine pills after area residents were warned by emergency alerts that a major event had taken place.
“They led a complex, responsible and critical mission,” Putin said of the five scientists that died in the blast while offering condolences. At least three others had been injured in the explosion.
“We are talking about the most advanced and unparalleled technical ideas and solutions, weapons that are designed to ensure sovereignty and security for Russia for decades to come,” Putin said.
At the time Reuters cited dangerously high levels of radiation emitted from the military test facility: “Greenpeace has cited data from the Emergencies Ministry that it said showed radiation levels had risen 20 times above the normal level in Severodvinsk around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Nyonoksa.”
Enough official descriptions of the experimental weapon had been pieced together for analysts to speculate at the time that it had been a prototype nuclear-powered cruise missile known in Russia as the 9M730 Burevestnik and by Nato as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
Putin had first unveiled the experimental technology during a 2018 speech showcasing Russian defense technology developments. The chief stunning claim behind the hypersonic missile is that it can traverse the globe indefinitely at “faster than Mach 5” based on its nuclear powered core.
These latest statements reported in Interfax provide further confirmation that Russia continues to pursue its futuristic hypersonic weapons program even after the latest major setbacks.
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Putin is acting as a rational man would who is beset by lunatics forever tightening the circle around him. Obviously Trump-dangerous asshole that he is-sending lethal aid to the Ukraine and scrapping the Nuclear Weapons Treaty was enough for Putin. Fuck with him and he’ll come out swinging. Of course ‘our’ government, by virtue of the Continuation Of Government policy (which we rabble are denied knowing the details of) have taken steps to protect themselves from attack. So there’s this ‘mall’ buried underground in d.c where these important bastards (who poll at an 8% approval) will go in the event of a nuclear attack to avoid the slaughter they caused. I wonder when we’ll get the chance to vote on that.
I remember in the 1980s, after I was in the USAF, Dad got on a tirade in his weekly “editorial” in the local paper about the fact that the US government was ordering some shielded and armored vans to be built so that the surviving US Senators and Representatives could get back to the states to GOVERN and control the survivors.
That enraged my father so much… I can remember him yelling that the only reason anybody EVER goes to war is because of those idiots in Congress who get elected and immediately latch onto the public teat and forget why they got elected. He said if he survived another nuclear blast (he was a Japan POW, remember, within a couple hundred miles) and saw one of those vans, he might firebomb it himself.
(I don’t think he would have… he was not a violent man. He’s up there with Poppa Grooch and the Holy Ghost now… he may be MORE violent now.)
I always get a kick out of hearing how continuity of government plans include keeping the IRS running after some kind of horrific large scale war or whatever. Yep, gotta keep the important stuff going for sure.
When there is nothing left but government the probability of survival drops to nil.
Oh, yeah. The bastards talk about social security ‘running out of money’. Not theirs of course.
You were very fortunate to have such a Dad. I was also. He served in the Pacific war and that experience turned him antiwar-although men of that generation couldn’t admit out loud to such a thing. We can.
I suspect that anyone attacking the US will have their own version of nuclear bunker busters, as well as the coordinates of that mall.
As for bizarre foreign aid policies, that has been going long before Trump was elected.
I wonder how anyone could handle the 100 years of bs that has been piling up – the saying about alligators and swamps comes to mind.
They may go to the bunker, but they will never be able to come back up to the surface.
The exit points would be good places to dump radioactive waste during the cleanup 🙂
Other TBP folks can feel free to school me on this if I’m egregiously wrong, but the way I see it, our military industrial complex basically just operates as a giant criminal organization whose mission is to make enormous profits rather than actually make superior weapons and equipment for the defense of the nation. Thus we get shitty planes, shitty ships, etc, at an exorbitant cost. The equipment is good enough to beat up on little third world nations, but any conflict with a big dog will show just how inadequate our stuff really is. Meanwhile, Russia and China are probably building legitimate, advanced weapons that will get the job done if ever required to do so, and all at a fraction of what the US spends. And like CCRider says, our esteemed leaders have survival plans for themselves but are perfectly fine with letting the rest of us peasants die due to the shit storm they are so keen on starting.
You sound plenty schooled enough to me. I would expand your scope to what Eisenhower was talked out of including: The Military Industrial Congressional Complex. And, yes they are all criminals in any moral definition of the word.
Not hard to go with actual fucking criminals (vs. moral criminal)…..Remember Rummy announcing $2.3T missing from the Pentagon on 9/10/01…….
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/missing-2-3-trillion-proves-911-was-an-inside-job/
Oh yes, Rummy spoke and suddenly there was a number seven bldg. that collapsed…ditto holes in the Pentagon…..and what was with the billion in cash Obammy sent to Iran?
I guess you didn’t get the word…..
The crust on these bastards.
Picture Roman senators competing to get the largest defensive wall project kickbacks, all while the Goth armies are advancing.
I doubt the political mindset has changed much over time.
I thought the Roman Senators were all trying to get the girl with the biggest boobs.
That’s what the kickback money was used for.
You hit the nail on the over-priced head with your comment above.
The Russians (the good guys BTW) provide their country with quality high-tech weapons on 90% less than what we spend… that is we spend 9 t0 1 what the good guys spend.
All of your money is wasted on supporting a ponzi-dollar-tyranny-system around the world that crushes smaller less developed countries that get out of line.
So they use scientists to salvage debris at sea?
I guess that means the divers and undersea experts are all safe in the lab.