According to the state news agency TASS, Russia is moving forward on the announced project for its Poseidon nuclear torpedo.
In early 2024, the construction of the necessary infrastructure on the coasts of the Pacific Ocean for the deployment of nuclear submarines that can be equipped with the torpedo should be completed, the agency said today, citing representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry.
The infrastructure should serve to park two special submarines in Kamchatka, he said. The Russian Pacific Fleet’s base for nuclear ballistic missile submarines is located on the Russian peninsula in Northeast Asia.
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin announced “Poseidon” torpedoes in 2018 and said it would be a completely new type of strategic nuclear weapon with unlimited range. In January 2023, TASS reported, citing unspecified sources, that the first of these torpedoes had been completed.
There are few confirmed details about her. It is said to be a torpedo and drone combination that can be launched from a nuclear submarine and has its own nuclear power source.