The Russian industrial military sector has tested the principal components of Poseidon, including its atomic motor, and the first models will be deployed on the Russian Navy’s Oscar-class nuclear submarine Belgorod “in the near future,” according to sources close to the project quoted by the TASS news agency. Poseidon will represent another escalation of Russia’s nuclear threat against the West. Another of the arms announced by Putin has already been deployed in Ukraine: the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. “Listen now.” The Russian leader unveiled a raft of proposed new weapons systems, among them the then-unnamed Poseidon, which he noted would be “practically indestructible,” almost silent and capable of great maneuverability. “Russia still has the greatest nuclear potential in the world, but nobody listened to us,” Putin said in his speech to the federal assembly almost five years ago. In the context of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO has expressed its concern over Poseidon, which is capable of delivering both nuclear and conventional warheads, triggering tsunamis and contaminating vast expanses of water with radioactive materials.
Tests on the Poseidon nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) have concluded, and the system will soon be deployed on one of Moscow’s new-generation submarines, according to Russian media reports. The Russian Navy has taken delivery of the first nuclear submarine drones announced under Vladimir Putin’s strategic weapons program in March 2018.
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