Russia – again – claims to have a doomsday weapon. Once it was the “Tsar Bomba,” a massive thermonuclear weapon, the most powerful ever built, with a yield of 50-55 megatons of TNT. Now it’s a cruise missile, one that Vladimir Putin himself describes as “invincible.”
Putin claims, as well, that they have made “a successful test” of the weapon, and are working to deploy it.
Moscow carried out a successful test of its new “invincible” nuclear-capable cruise missile, with the Kremlin now working to deploy the doomsday weapon, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
Putin hailed the test in a video released by the Kremlin while dressed in military fatigues, with the strongman calling on his top general to start preparing the Burevestnik missile for potential use.
“We need to determine the possible uses and begin preparing the infrastructure for deploying these weapons to our armed forces,” Putin instructed.
The video (see below) only appears to show the launching of the missile, which apparently launches vertically with a rocket booster, like the American Tomahawk, before changing to level flight mode.
Little is known about the Burevestnik missile, which NATO code-named Skyfall.
Putin previously touted the weapons as his “invincible” missile, capable of bypassing all current and future missile defense systems. He also claimed that the nuclear-armed has a nearly unlimited range and an unpredictable flight path, making it impossible to intercept.
Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, claimed the latest test showed the missile was capable of flying for 15 hours and covered a distance of about 8,700 miles, easily capable of reaching New York City or Washington D.C.
If that’s accurate, then yes, the missile could reach the American coast.
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But is it really that capable? Russia, in general, and Vladimir Putin in particular, have been known to play fast and loose with facts. And the test video only shows the launch; it’s unclear if one missile was tested, or several.
This missile has been in development for some time, and previous tests were less than optimal.
The head of the Russian nuclear agency said Monday that the five scientists killed last week in a rocket explosion at a missile test range had been developing “new weapons,” according to a report.
The accident occurred Thursday during tests on a liquid-propellant rocket engine at an arctic naval range on the coast of the White Sea in Nyonska run by state nuclear company Rosatom.
US experts have said the blast could have been related to testing of the Burevestnik cruise missile, known by NATO as SSC-X-9 Skyfall, which President Vladimir Putin touted earlier this year.
That’s right: By “less than optimal,” we mean “explodes at an inappropriate moment.” The whole point of a missile like this, after all, is to have it explode on the target – not on the test pad. Especially not when highly-trained rocket scientists are nearby – we’re assuming they really were rocket scientists, since they were described as scientists by the Russian nuclear agency, and they were working on a rocket. Elementary logic, you know?
Some skepticism is in order here. Russia hasn’t traditionally done cutting-edge technology all that well. But accuracy by volume, they do very well, and whatever they may be doing with fancy advanced cruise missiles, they seem to have plenty of the traditional kind around, along with a lot of artillery. They may not be able to hit Washington with those, but they have shown that they can sure cause Ukraine a lot of problems.
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