Wladimir Putin seems unwilling to revise its expansion plans Ukraine and in Europe. With a coupé de theater he let the world know that the “Belgorod“, the largest nuclear submarine completed after the end of the USSR. As Gianluca Di Feo revealed in Repubblica, it is 184 meters long and only smaller than the “Typhoon” class that starred the Hollywood blockbuster in the 1980s.”Hunt for Red October“We have not yet begun to wage war in earnest,” said the “Tsar,” speaking of the new war machine that represents a new concept of underwater battle. The “Belgorod” strikes directly into the abyss Poseidon: a monstrous torpedo with enormous autonomy, repeatedly invoked by the Kremlin. 24 meters long it should be able to hit you more than 10,000 kilometers away. The goal is a ‘atomic under waterspark some kind colossal tsunami on opposite shores: imagine the havoc it could wreak on cities like New York or Los Angeles.
The Poseidon is still in the prototype phase, but Belgorod – explains Di Feo – also carries smaller underwater vehicles that can do that sabotaging the arteries of oil or gas pipelines built into the seabed, but mainly for Spying on and manipulating fiber optic cables which are the vital network of the digital world, in which web connections and telephone conversations run. The most famous of these shuttles is the “Losharik”, named after an articulated horse protagonist in a popular Soviet cartoon: It can dive to depths of up to two thousand meters, where it has no equal. So far the analysts of the Born They had viewed the project with skepticism: four years had passed since the launch of the large submarine and it was believed that it was still a long way from being operational. Instead, the start of military activities was announced yesterday.
