Secret Russian radioactive doomsday torpedo leaked on television

News of the design was reported on state and NTV television Monday as though merely in passing, during a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and military industry officials and generals.

The footage aired on Tuesday and was later deleted by the channels, but several websites still published screenshots from it.

The appearance of the video on Kremlin-controlled channels raised suspicions it was done intentionally to alarm the West.

“We have repeatedly said that Russian Federation will take all necessary retaliatory steps to strengthen its strategic nuclear forces capabilities”.

Putin has held four meetings on defence issues in the four days this week as relations between Russian Federation and the West remain strained over the crisis in Ukraine.

During his meetings in Sochi with military officials earlier this week, Putin said the “true purpose” of the planned U.S.-led missile shield is “to neutralize the potential of other nuclear states… primarily Russian Federation”.

We should also note, a state-run newspaper published details of the torpedo weapon after the footage aired on TV, so it’s probably extra-unlikely the Russian government’s all that concerned about this information getting out.

A Kremlin spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the weapon, which Moscow is calling the Status-6 system, was inadvertently disclosed.

The drone, according to the project documents, will be launched from two new models of submarine that Russian Federation has started developing over the past three years.

Putin went on to say that the USA and other NATO powers are building a few kind of massive missile defense system, which apparently violates a few kind of agreement or treaty.

“The Russian president and commander in chief was sharply critical, saying the shield was directed at Russia”. Luckily, the document says the weapon – designed by the Rubin design bureau, which designed every Russian submarine in current service – won’t be ready until 2020. “The plan is to deliver a 100-megaton nuclear bomb to the United States shores”, he told the agency.

The notes on the torpedo diagram give it a range of up to 6,200 miles (10,000km), and a dive depth of 3,300 feet (1,000m) – far beyond that of most manned submarines.

He said that Moscow will respond by developing “strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defenses”.

“It’s a “remember me” to the USA from the late Andrei Sakharov”, he said, referring to a Soviet physicist who created the first Soviet nuclear weapon, and later became an outspoken dissident and anti-nuclear activist.