Explosion near Severodvinsk - Radiation spike

[Otern]

The Russians have two nuclear propulsion projects that I've heard of. It's the 9M730 Burevestnik, a nuclear powered and armed cruise missile that will have unlimited rage and the Status-6 (or Poseidon) Oceanic Multipurpose System, a nuclear-powered and armed torpedo/drone sub.

It was probably the 9M730 Burevestnik engine they were tinkering around with if I had to guess.

Yeah. But there's really nothing that special about the drone sub, apart from being a nuclear drone sub. Submarines have been using nuclear propulsion for a long time. It's also probably more of a propaganda weapon than an actual practical weapon.

Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly possible to make a 50-100 megaton nuclear drone sub, but it's nowhere near as useful as other means to deliver a warhead. It's extremely impractical, and there's very few scenarios, compared to other nuclear delivery systems, where it could be used.

[DrYouth]

Good thread.

>goldstar<

[SuburbanFarmer]

MSM silent of course, as they were when a city-killer asteroid brushed the atmosphere last week.

You will not receive warning of danger.

[Ex-California]

It does ban nuclear propulsion that works (i.e. nuclear pulse propulsion). That is what can get you to another star system or to zip on over to Mars like you are cruising across the Atlantic.

I am not sure about the other kinds, like what Stanton Friedman was working on at General Dynamics.

Nuclear pulse propulsion probably works, but haven't been tested on a nuclear scale (there's a cool video of a test with conventional explosives though). Project Pluto and that Russian cruise missile use tested and proven nuclear ramjet propulsion. Basically, the missile is propelled to a high speed with conventional rockets, then the reactor kicks in an heat the air coming in the ramjet at a high speed, giving the missile thrust. So those missiles aren't covered by the test ban treaty, since it's just an unshielded, reactor, and not a bomb. It's still an absolute insane concept though, which is why the Americans called it a day after two ground tests of the engine.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is basically a lot of nuclear bombs, blowing up behind the vehicle, pushing it forward. Really only useful for space exploration. This is banned by the test ban treaty, since it's covering nuclear explosions.

A mainstay of Sci-Fi....

[C-Mag]

MSM silent of course, as they were when a city-killer asteroid brushed the atmosphere last week.

You will not receive warning of danger.

Link ?

[Hastur]

MSM silent of course, as they were when a city-killer asteroid brushed the atmosphere last week.

You will not receive warning of danger.

Link ?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/earth-h ... 52apn.html

A new one today by the way.

[Ex-California]

Honestly, I'd rather be surprised by a death-asteroid

[C-Mag]

Honestly, I'd rather be surprised by a death-asteroid

Of those two killer asteroid movies around 2000. The one had a pretty good idea of what would happen if word got out. Chaos.

[Speaker to Animals]

Honestly, I'd rather be surprised by a death-asteroid

You might miss it, though. Don't you want to set up the lawn chair on the roof and pop open some beers?

I mean.. hell.. you might as well attach all those balloons to the lawn chair, load up some brews, and watch the show in the sky.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Or the other 99% of humanity could prepare for the economic chaos of a city being blown off the map. But ya know, ‘chaos’.