What is Russia's Poseidon nuclear drone and could it wipe out the UK in a radioactive tsunami?




A popular Russian state TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov has warned that Moscow could wipe Britain off the map with a nuclear tsunami in retaliation for supporting Ukraine.

In his Sunday evening primetime show on Channel One, one of the most-watched in Russia, Dmitry Kiselyov claimed on May 1 that a strike by the country’s Poseidon nuclear underwater drone could drown the UK under a 500-metre tidal wave of radioactive seawater.

Euronews Next checked his claims with three experts on nuclear weapons, submarines and drones. Here’s what we know - and don’t know - about Russia’s new nuclear torpedo and the damage it could inflict.

It is possible of covering the enemy's coast with artificial tsunamis and destroying entire ship groups.

Poseidon also has a nuclear engine and can travel thousands of kilometers at underwater depth.

There are simply no device like it in the world.

The Poseidon underwater drone - also known as Status-6 and in the United States as "Kanyon" - is basically a very large, nuclear-powered autonomous torpedo armed with a nuclear warhead.

What we know of it mostly stems from a 2015 leak on Russian TV of a government project for an underwater nuclear drone.

According to its mission statement, the project was focused on “damaging the important components of the adversary's economy in a coastal area and inflicting unacceptable damage to a country's territory by creating areas of wide radioactive contamination that would be unsuitable for military, economic, or other activity for long periods of time”.

In 2018, a leaked draft of the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review acknowledged Russia was developing a "new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo”.

Much of its actual capabilities remain shrouded in mystery, but its key strengths are thought to be its ability to operate very deep and very fast underwater, making it hard to intercept.

What motivated its development was Russia’s ambition to display a range of weapons that can evade the US missile defence system, said Pavel Podvig, an expert on Russian nuclear forces and senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

Let them kukuma destroy this world make we hear word. Haba. Which kind of intimidation be this?

How many weapon's Russia get

War is everly more expensive than peace... But the world has history of nations constantly choosing the former

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How many weapon's Russia get

Russia no get joy
They will soon anounce another nuke
Imagine satan 2 and autonomous nuclear powered torpedo hitting tiny Britain at the same time

Russia small small na, this oppression is too much. Abi make we just commot this world for you.

Whose your Daddy

I don't understand, that first missle there that dwarf that humanoid figure... Is it a submarine or something else??

The west will shake and wail soon.