A Russian Navy submarine armed with a strategic nuclear torpedo the size of a school bus was delivered to the Kremlin this week, according to an announcement from the shipyard. Project 09852 Belgorod is based on a Russian Oscar-class guided-cruise missile submarine that has been altered to accommodate six 80-foot Poseidon nuclear torpedoes that could be armed with a warhead of up to 100 megatons, USNI News previously reported. The submarine was delivered to the Russian Navy in a ceremony in at the Northern Fleet’s headquarters in Severodvinsk on Friday, ‘Doomsday’ Submarine Armed With Nuclear Torpedoes Delivers to Russian Navy - USNI News
We wondered the same thing at the same time. One of us must have special powers. According to my wife, it’s not me.
Putin loves to display weapons specifically designed to kill millions of Americans like with his hypersonic technology. They've already put out simulated videos of this torpedo, plainly designed to show it killing Americans. It's part of the reason that was so frustrating that so many Americans seem to love him, including our former president
Its purpose is to sit off either the coast of the U.S. and, on order, launch the 100-MT torpedoes to explode at distances offshore, causing mega tsunamis that engulf our port cities. That’s why it’s a “doomsday weapon.” It cannot itself survive the ordered attack and is only used if all else is lost.
It’s a Russian Navy vessel, meaning it is specifically designed to, at some unknown point in its service life, catch on fire and sink while Russia refuses everyone else in the world’s offers to help and insists that nothing is wrong.
It might be incredibly misguided but after watching their buffoonery of a ground game in the Ukraine I find myself questioning the capability of the rest of their military as well.
Their navy specifically has major maintenance issues that tend to keep their capital ships out-of-service. By way of example, their only aircraft carrier was accompanied by a tug-boat on the only actual combat deployment it has ever made (to support Russian operations in Syria) because of concerns that it’s propulsion system would fail, has repeatedly lost aircraft every time it has deployed, and hasn’t sailed at all since 2018. It’s supposed to be undergoing a refit that long ago should have finished, and Russia has managed to have a crane collapse on it, have it catch on fire, and have its dry dock sink, all in the span of this attempt at a mid-life refit.
If Margo hadn’t fallen for Sergey and gotten blackmailed, they would have never figured out their Mars engine. Overheated it as it was and we had to rescue them
Let’s not whistle past the graveyard. First, Ukraine hasn’t won and isn’t winning, much as we all want it to be otherwise. Second, China has not made its move yet. When it does, the shape of the game might change a great deal. Third, worst of all, over the last six months we have done little to nothing to improve our own situation, economically or militarily, vis-à-vis either foe. Sure, we’ve sanctioned Russia, but China and India (and probably to an extent Iran) have been working hard to insulate Russia from the intended effects; meanwhile, we have done virtually nothing to insulate ourselves or our partners from the effects those sanctions have on us. Just sitting around mocking Russia for their earlier tactical missteps (from which, by the way, they seem to have learn and adapted) is not anymore of a strategy than the Jake Sullivan Method of hoping the war does not escalate.
