December 30, 2018
Russia’s Poseidon Thermonuclear Torpedo Is No Aircraft-Carrier Killer
If the goal is to sink a U.S. carrier, couldn’t Russia saturate a carrier’s defenses with a volley of conventionally-armed hypersonic missiles like the Mach 5-plus Khinzal?
by Michael Peck
Russia has begun underwater tests of its Poseidon thermonuclear torpedo.
The Poseidon is an 80-foot-long nuclear-powered submersible robot that is essentially an underwater ICBM. It is designed to travel autonomously across thousands of miles, detonate outside an enemy coastal city, and destroy it by generating a tsunami.
"In the sea area protected from a potential enemy’s reconnaissance means, the underwater trials of the nuclear propulsion unit of the Poseidon drone are underway," an unnamed Russian defense official told the TASS news agency.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia%E2%80%99s-poseidon-thermonuclear-torpedo-no-aircraft-carrier-killer-40242
