MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo and that it had been a great success.
U.S. and Russian officials have both described Poseidon as a new category of retaliatory weapon, capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable.
Putin told soldiers wounded in the Ukraine war that the test had taken place on Tuesday.
“For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said.
“This is a huge success,” Putin said, adding that the power of the Poseidon exceeded the Sarmat intercontinental missile.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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