Epic Timmay Fail Pt13 - Russian Drone Submarine Doomsday Cobalt Bomb

[mongers]

Tsunamis too apparently. 

No idea of the veracity of the story, can't be arsed to google for supporting articles to back the premise of this devise, though it seems more likely to be just Russian black propaganda.

Primarily posting the item as I can't believe Tim missed this, I mean he could have really gone to town on the in/appropriate thread title, Ah well, I for one welcome back our potential Soviet overlords. :strangelove smilie:

Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV 'leak'
12 November 2015

The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo - called "Status-6" - should not have appeared on Russian TV news.

The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi.

One general was seen studying a diagram of the "devastating" torpedo system.

Launched by a submarine, it would create "wide areas of radioactive contamination", the document says.

The "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" is designed to "destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time", the document says.

"It's true some secret data got into the shot, therefore it was subsequently deleted," said Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

"In future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen again."

The US Defence Department said it had seen the report, but would not comment further.

"We are aware of the video footage, but defer to the Russian navy as to its authenticity," a Pentagon spokesperson told the BBC.

However, the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta later reported details of the weapon, without showing the diagram, and speculated about a super-radioactive cobalt device. So the leak may not have been accidental.
Cobalt warhead?

On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).

It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.

It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod" and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.

Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".
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Full article here, worth a read as it goes into Tsunamis and shit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34797252

[jimmy olsen]

I did see this, but missed that it was a cobalt warhead. That's fucking crazy.

[Syt]

I posted about it in the Russia thread. Missed the cobalt, though.

[mongers]

I did see this, but missed that it was a cobalt warhead. That's fucking crazy.

See you did fail.   

What about the tsunami? 

[Eddie Teach]

Couldn't they achieve the same thing by just setting off a nuke in the water?

[Syt]

I suppose, but I guess the idea is that it's more difficult to intercept or detect if underwater? Though I don't know much about ease of detection air vs. water.

[Warspite]

I think this is a gimmick related to Russia's ongoing disapproval of US and NATO ballistic missile defence plans.

[Syt]

Well yeah, I would be surprised if this was really accidental.

[Berkut]

Well yeah, I would be surprised if this was really accidental.

I am kind of torn.

On the one hand, it seems like a pretty cheap way to get the West all worked up - after all, a snazzy photo shop is a lot cheaper than developing an actual weapon!

On the other hand, I am a firm believer in the corollary to Occam's Razor that states that we should never attribute to conspiracy what can easily be explained by simple governmental stupidity and incompetence.

And this is the same organization that brough us the Kursk fiasco, so the idea that they could be stupid enough to accidently display secret plans for a weapon that only a moron would develop to begin with is not at all hard to accept.

But then, perhaps they know that, and are looking to cash in some of that negative stupid credit they worked so hard to bank up with stuff like sinking their own submarine then letting the survivors die over a couple days while they could have been saved if anyone gave enough of a shit about them to do so...

So who really knows?

[celedhring]

I'm pretty sure I have already seen this movie.

Faulting that, I'm sure we can get Roland Emmerich on the case.

[The Brain]

I'm lying naked on the floor.

[KRonn]

The Chinese have likely already hacked into systems and stolen the tech, so they'll be coming out with their own version in a couple of years. 

[Josquius]

Well this is a dick weapon.