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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, October 29 (Xinhua) — Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the testing of Russia's new weapon, the Poseidon underwater vehicle, stated that nothing like it exists in the world and is unlikely to appear anytime soon. On Wednesday, the Russian leader visited the P.V. Mandryka Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow, where he met with participants in the special military operation undergoing treatment there.
"Yesterday, we conducted another test of another promising system—the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle, also with a nuclear propulsion system. For the first time, we were able to not only launch it from a submarine using its booster motor, but also power the nuclear propulsion system, which powered the vehicle for a certain period of time. This is a tremendous success," the Russian leader said.
"There's nothing else like this unmanned aerial vehicle in the world in terms of depth of flight, and it's unlikely to appear anytime soon, and there are no existing interceptor methods," Putin emphasized. Moreover, "the Poseidon's power significantly exceeds that of even our most advanced intercontinental-range missile, the Sarmat," he added.
According to the Russian President, the Sarmat intercontinental missile will soon be put on combat duty.
Vladimir Putin also recalled that a new, unlimited-range nuclear-powered missile, the Burevestnik, had recently been tested. It features a number of breakthrough scientific and technical solutions that will also be applied in the civilian sector.
"We'll be able to apply this to the national economy, we'll be able to use it in the future to address energy security in the Arctic, and we'll use it in the lunar program. And even now, the radiation-protected electronics used in the Burevestnik rocket are already being used in space programs, so this is a breakthrough not only in enhancing the country's defense capability, but also in science as a whole, and in the national economy of the future," Vladimir Putin noted.
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