Russia has produced the first nuclear warheads for the Poseidon super torpedoes to be deployed on the Belgorod nuclear submarine, the Russian News Agency TASS reported on Monday, citing an unidentified defense source.
"The first Poseidon ammunition loads have been manufactured, and the Belgorod submarine will receive them in the near future," TASS quoted the source as saying.
Putin announced Poseidon in 2018
President Vladimir Putin first announced what would become known as Poseidon in 2018, saying it was a fundamentally new type of strategic nuclear weapon with its own nuclear power source.
In the 2018 speech, Putin said the range of the torpedo would be unlimited and that it could operate at extreme depths at a speed many times that of any submarine or other torpedoes.
"They are very low noise, have high maneuverability and are practically indestructible for the enemy. There is no weapon that can counter them in the world today," Putin said.
The Poseidon, or the Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6, is a underwater unmanned vehicle that can be launched by a submarine. According to Popular Mechanics, it can travel up to 6,200 miles at speeds of 56 knots (Just over 100 kilometers per hour).
It is said that the torpedo will position itself over a mile off an enemy coast, in water that is at LEAST 1 mile deep, and detonate a warhead that is said to be one-hundred-megatons.
This warhead will cause a Tsunami wave in the ocean, that will, in computer simulations, create a wave one-thousand, five-hundred feet tall, that comes ashore and destroys the entire coastline for several MILES inland, covering it with highly radioactive water, leaving the shore, and several MILES inland, completely flattened and so radioactive it cannot be inhabited for DECADES.
In the case of the United States, such devices, detonated several miles off the eastern coast, would wipe out almost all major cities. There would be no warning that it was about to detonate, and no time to escape the Tsunami wave. Millions would perish.
