Russia’s Secret New Super Weapon ‘Accidentally’ Revealed



Russia’s Secret New Super Weapon ‘Accidentally’ Revealed

By E. Stanley Ukeni

An interesting and noteworthy incident occurred this week, which I think is worth blogging about. It happened during a recent, media covered, high-level meeting between the Russian head of state and his military chiefs.

At the gathering that took place in the Black Sea city of Sochi, in which President Putin was meeting with senior military officers and officials from Russia’s arms industry, a cameraman from the Russian government-run Channel One news station, seemed to have quite by accident aimed his camera over the shoulder of a military officer as he flipped open a page on a ‘briefing book’.



Visible in the momentary glimpse of the camera, one could make out dual headers that reads; “Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6” and “Developer—Rubin Design Bureau.”

Below this are some explanatory text and illustrations. The explanation read, in part, “Purpose—the defeat of the important economic facilities in the area of the enemy coast,” the text reads, “and causing unacceptable damage to… the country through the establishment of extensive zones of radioactive contamination, unsuitable for implementation in these areas of military, economic, business or other activity for a long time.”   

The exposed renditions on the illustrations on the revealed pages of the briefing book show the schematics for an advanced torpedo-like Russian long-range hybrid drone mini-submarine. Also revealed are renderings of two larger subs—the nuclear-powered “Project 09852” and “Project 09851” vessels that are under construction for the Russian navy, and which are both reportedly optimized for rescue, reconnaissance and other undersea special operations.

 

The exposed schematics indicates that the hybrid drone mini-submarine possess a range of up to 10,000km (6,200 miles) a depth trajectory of up to 1,000m (3,300ft). And was developed by Rubin—a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg. It is designed to be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 ‘Belgorod’ and 09851 ‘Khabarovsk’ series. When launched, the weapon system travels at the speed of 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would allow the weapon to evade all acoustic tracking devices and other decoy traps.

The description of this fearsome weapon system strongly suggests that it could very likely be designed to equally be deployed as a tactical aircraft carrier destroyer. This would make the ‘Status-6’ one of the most important strategic offensive weapon platforms to be fielded by the Russian military.

In the moments before the camera was aimed over the shoulder of the officer who was flipping open the briefing book, President Vladimir Putin could be heard saying that the United States and its NATO allies were proceeding with their plan to deploy a global anti-missile defense system…“Ignoring our concerns and our offers of cooperation”.

He continued that the Western defense project was, “an attempt to undermine the existing parity in strategic nuclear weapons, and essentially to upset the whole system of global and regional stability”.

President Putin further impelled the leaders of Russia’s military industrial complex to continue developing strategic offensive weapons systems capable of penetrating any anti-missile defense that Russia’s adversaries would devise.

The State-sponsored Channel One news station broadcast the footage at least once before editing the shots to remove the revealed briefing book footage—perhaps at the instruction of incensed Kremlin censors. However, it was too late to suppress the revelation as attentive viewers had already posted the original clip to YouTube—and got busy circulating the screenshots on social media. A clip of the aired footage, now circulating online, has as sparked social media frenzy.

  

The spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed the embarrassing incident in a public remark, “It’s true some secret data got into the shot, therefore it was subsequently deleted. In the future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen again.”

The Russian government newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, subsequently published details of the secret weapon system—without the revealed schematics. In the published report, the newspaper speculated that the exponential explosive yield of the hybrid drone mini-submarine’s warhead would suggest it to be a Cobalt bomb. 

This is a type of thermonuclear warhead grafted with a layer of cobalt-59, which upon detonation would be transmuted into highly radioactive cobalt-60—with a half-life longer than five years.

The newspaper report indicated that a Cobalt bomb would guarantee the annihilation of every living thing within its radioactive blast range—and that even bunkers would not have any survivors.

A cobalt bomb has never been tested by any country, for good reason…even a test would unleash a devastatingly lethal radiation.

Although it is quite possible that an editing mistake and lapse in security oversight may have unwittingly caused the revelation of what should be a ‘top secret’ briefing document with perfectly legible specs and schematics for a new Russian weapon system, it is equally plausible that the mistake was not accidental. This could possibly be a textbook case of an orchestrated effort at spreading disinformation for an ulterior motive. The Russian are, after all, well known to be master of the art of disinformation.  

The fact is that there is no way of definitively confirming the existence of the sort of radiological weaponry described in the leaked briefing document. However, if the information contained in the accidentally recorded document is real, Russia does indeed possess such a menacing radiological weapon—then it would be the first country known to possess such a tactical weapon.

 

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