Status-6 could be the first submarine ballistic missile in the world. Details of the new nuclear-propelled radioactive torpedo capable of contaminating the economic targets of enemy coasts such as fishing areas continue to leak. According to the official descriptions, the "Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6" system was designed to "cause unacceptable damage, contaminating vast enemy coastal areas and rendering them completely lifeless for long periods of time". The prototype should be ready by 2019 with sea trials planned for the following year.
The Status-6 would have a range of 10.000 kilometers, a diving capacity of a thousand meters and a speed of 100 knots. Two submarines suitably modified to launch the Status-6: the "Belgorod" and the "Khabarovsk", evolutions of the Oscar II class.
Other details emerge, issued by the Rossiiskaya Gazeta. The Status-6 would have a cobalt head. What in the West has been carelessly mistaken for a torpedo, is actually a submarine ICBM. The first in his class.
Doubts aboutOcean Multipurpose System: Status-6 are several. One wonders, for example, how to navigate safely at a thousand meters depth and at that speed.
We know that the Russians have made enormous progress in super-cavitation, but that technology was then used on the systems Shkval. But the torpedoes Shkval however, they are tactical weapons designed to sink ships. The Status-6 it is instead a strategic nuclear weapon.
The final part of the study in the Russian newspaper is interesting. "The Status-6 is an automatic retaliatory missile system". An automated system then, a last weapon designed to hit the United States. It should be noted that Status-6 it was designed only for retaliation. Should the US wipe out the Russian leadership with a pre-emptive strike, the Status-6 they would be launched from the depths of the sea. It is clearly an atomic war reasoning, with factions that by now have nothing to lose. It is clear that even if the USA attacked beforehand, they would still be hit, at best, by at least one hundred Russian nuclear warheads. The Status-6 it would only be one more thought, but certainly not the worst.
So why a weapon like Status-6? For its ability to create "radioactive dead zones" in the long term. Its cobalt head would be devastating for natural resources like fishing and offshore oil fields. The Status-6 was designed to starve the survivors of a nuclear holocaust from the sea.
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During the filming of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and the defense officials, which took place in Sochi last November 9th, some Russian broadcasters "carelessly" resumed the information of the ultra-secret project in the hands of a general.
Particularly moderate was the reaction of the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. "It is true, some classified information has been taken from the cameras. Some of them we have canceled, but we have not been able to withdraw the whole shot. We hope that this will not happen again in the future".
Despite the "comprehensive" warning from a good family man, few have believed that such a project has escaped due to a fortuitous coincidence to the Russian military, considering that the meeting concerned precisely the countermeasures to be taken in a hypothetical confrontation against NATO and the United States.
