The US saw Russia moving to possibly test Putin's nuclear-powered 'doomsday' torpedo, but it looks

[TexasTowelie]

The US saw Russia moving to possibly test Putin's nuclear-powered 'doomsday' torpedo, but it looks like something went wrong: CNN


Russian efforts to test a one-of-a-kind nuclear-powered torpedo prototype may have hit a snag, a US official told CNN on Thursday.

Unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018, the self-propelled torpedo, or unmanned underwater vehicle, is claimed to have an unlimited range and the ability to carry a nuclear warhead up to 125 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to Popular Mechanics.

"Unmanned underwater vehicles can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads, which enables them to engage various targets, including aircraft groups, coastal fortifications, and infrastructure," Putin said at the time, claiming it was invulnerable to counter-measures. "There is simply nothing in the world capable of withstanding them."

All types of torpedoes are essentially unstoppable. But they are limited by the range and speed challenges of moving a heavy object through water, which is much higher friction than air. Russia's claims to use nuclear power to propel Poseidon potentially solve this in an unprecedented way — if it actually works. There are no yet signs that it does, however, and a US official told CNN it appears Russia is having trouble even trying to see if it does.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-us-saw-russia-moving-to-possibly-test-putin-s-nuclear-powered-doomsday-torpedo-but-it-looks-like-something-went-wrong-cnn/ar-AA13XR1Y

[SheltieLover]

1. Thankfully, ruskies appear to not be able to engineer their way out of a paper bag

If I were pootin, I wouldn't want to even test the stuff.

[marble falls]

2. Well, you know what they say in Russia - Tov Shidski.

[SheltieLover]

3. No. What does that mean?

[marble falls]

5. Tough shit. OOOOld joke.

[SheltieLover]

6. Hahaha!

Ya, everything they turn out sucks!



Thx for sharing.

[pandr32]

4. LMAO!

[sprinkleeninow]

7. ...

🤣

[Mme. Defarge]

12. I got it!

But probably because I’m dating a Russian language expert.

[marble falls]

13. Or you're an antique, like me!

[Mme. Defarge]

16. Both, actually!

[marble falls]

8. They still haven't found the guy who lit the fuse on the botched nuclear rocket a few years back ...

... lost bunch of their weapons designers, too.

[SheltieLover]

9. Seriously?

[marble falls]

10. Seriously. The US worked on a nuclear missile but realized decades ago it was not a reliable ...

... weapon and quit.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/mysterious-russian-nuclear-propelled-missile-explosion/story?id=64963440

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. The passing decades make for better weapons of all kinds, monstrous weapons like these,

funded by monstrous budgets and monstrous propaganda brainwashing us all into believing war is the norm and the solution, peace the aberration, mere appeasement.

It’s all evil

[marble falls]

14. You need to read this book: The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zap_Gun

It's still in print and there's a pile of used copies out there. GREAT book.



The Zap Gun PhilipKDick


First edition cover
Author Philip K. Dick
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Pyramid Books
Publication date
1967
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 176

The Zap Gun is a 1967 science fiction novel by American author Philip K. Dick. It was written in 1964 and first published under the title Project Plowshare as a serial in the November 1965 and January 1966 issues of Worlds of Tomorrow magazine.[1]

Plot

This novel is set in a then-future 2004. There is still a (theoretical) Cold War between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. At the elite governmental level, however, both "sides" have secretly come to an agreement. They have decided that, instead of continuing the ecologically and economically crippling nuclear and conventional arms race, they will pretend to be constantly developing new weapons, which are then "plowshared". This means that these items are transformed into novel but baroque consumer products. Most of these weapon designers are mediums, who create their new designs in trance states. Design of weapons are extracted telepathically from a motion comic book, The Blue Cephalopod Man from Titan, created by mad Italian artist Oral Giacomini.

One Wes-Bloc weapons designer, Lars Powderdry (Mr. Lars of Mr. Lars Incorporated) is the central character. He is depressed that his industry is little more than a fraud, as none of his "weapons" are functional, having become fashion items instead. The plowshared guidance system of Item 202, a telepathic featureless brazen head named Ol' Orville, explains that this depression is merely a projection of his own fears of professional and physical impotence. His female Peep-East counterpart is Lilo Topchev, whom he knows nothing about, but whom Ol' Orville advises him to seduce. He also has a mistress, Maren Faine, head of his company's Parisian branch.

Apart from the comic overtones of this deception, there is a subplot related to alien invasion. Sirian aliens invade Earth, and are determined to enslave its populace. The aliens' first target is New Orleans, which is enshrouded in a "gray curtain of death". Earth has a problem, given the deceptive nature of its arms race and the absence of functional weapons technology. Lilo immediately tries to kill Lars, despite the intentions of their blocs otherwise, but eventually they collaborate. Neither can design functional weapons, however.

There is a further subplot about a conspiracy theorist, who is elected as an "average man" to the governing body of Wes-Bloc. The conclusion involves an eclectic mixture of time travel, androids, drugs, toys, and comic books.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. Thanks, sounds interesting if not a bit convoluted...as I like most novels!