Moscow (TDI): In a National Day ceremony at the Kremlin on Tuesday, the Russian President presented state awards to the developers of the country’s most-recent Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater drone.
Both of these weapons have been successfully tested recently, and Putin regarded them as utilizing the technology that can be replicated to make more unmanned vehicles, shipbuilding, navigation systems, and autonomous shipping.
“Today, here in the Kremlin, we honor people who have set an example of such worthy service to the Motherland, [and] made a significant contribution to ensuring its security and defense capability […],” the President said.
Putin said that the successful tests of these two nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable weapons carries “historic significance” and that none of these are a threat to any other country. He added that as a nuclear state, Russia is modernizing and upgrading its technology.
“Russia, like all other nuclear powers, is developing nuclear potential and its strategic potential. Everything we have been talking about now is work that was announced long ago,” he said.
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Poseidon is an unmanned under water drone equipped with a nuclear power unit, with a range of more than 6,000 miles (9,650 kilometers) while Burevestnik missile flew 8,700 miles (14,000 kilometers) over 15 hours during its test flight.
“In terms of flight range, the Burevestnik … has surpassed all known missile systems in the world,” Putin said in his speech. Both latest weapons were tested in the last days of October, and have been hailed as massive achievements by Russia.
On October 29, while visiting the P.V. Mandryk Central Military Clinical Hospital and talking to injured personnel, Putin regarded the test of Poseidon as “tremendous success. He emphasized that Poseidon’s design is exceptionally compact.
Poseidon’s reactor is said to be around one‑hundred times smaller than that of a submarine, yet its power “significantly exceeds” that of Russia’s next‑generation intercontinental ballistic missile, Sarmat.
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