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# Pentagon Document Confirms Existence Of Russian Doomsday Torpedo

Authored by Kyle Mizokami via PopularMechanics.com,

A key U.S. nuclear weapons document confirms that the Russian government is developing the most powerful nuclear weapon in more than a half century.

A leaked copy of the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review states that Russia is developing a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo.”

The existence of the weapon, known as Kanyon to the Pentagon and "Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6" to Russia, was first leaked by Russian television in November 2015. A test involving the Sarov-class submarine mothership was leaked in December 2016.

The Nuclear Posture Review report, dated January 2018, lists the weapon as part of Russia’s underwater nuclear arsenal. Here’s a screen capture, with Kanyon circled in red:

Kanyon is reportedly a very long range autonomous underwater vehicle that has a range 6,200 miles, a maximum depth of 3,280 feet, and a speed of 100 knots according to claims in leaked Russian documents.

But what really makes Kanyon nightmare fuel is the drone torpedo's payload: a 100-megaton thermonuclear weapon. By way of comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 16 kilotons, or the equivalent of 16,000 tons of TNT. Kanyon’s nuke would be the equivalent of 100,000,000 tons of TNT. That’s twice as powerful as Tsar Bomba, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever tested. Dropped on New York City, a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.

Kanyon is designed to attack coastal areas, destroying cities, naval bases, and ports. The mega-bomb would also generate an artificial tsunami that would surge inland, spreading radioactive contamination with the advancing water. To make matters worse there are reports the warhead is “salted” with the radioactive isotope Cobalt-60. Contaminated areas would be off-limits to humanity for up to 100 years.

Kanyon is designed to get around American ballistic missile defenses, primarily the Ground-Based Interceptor missiles based in Alaska and California. Although GBI is meant to counter small numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles from rogue countries such as Iran and North Korea, Russia wants to make it abundantly clear that it could still penetrate U.S. defenses even if they were scaled up to deal with larger, more powerful nuclear arsenals.

Kanyon’s range and payload makes it much larger than existing torpedoes. According to submarine expert H.I. Sutton, Kanyon is 5.5 feet wide and 79 feet long, making it twice as large as a Bulava submarine launched ballistic missile. Sutton also believes the torpedo is nuclear powered.

The Russian Navy is testing Kanyon from a Sarov-class Russian Navy submarine. The unique, one-of-a-kind Sarov does not have any torpedo tubes of her own, but instead carries the nuclear-armed AUV externally attached to the pressure hull.

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Shitonya Serfs Jan 18, 2018 4:59 PM Permalink

Putin, you are weak, I don't believe you...prove me wrong, test run this in Mediterranean Sea...aim south/south-east of Cypress

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Haus-Targaryen Shitonya Serfs Jan 18, 2018 5:05 PM Permalink

Now the only question of relevance: does Putin work for (((them))) or is he writing his own script?

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Stuck on Zero Haus-Targaryen Jan 18, 2018 5:10 PM Permalink

This is all old fake news.

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stizazz Stuck on Zero Jan 18, 2018 5:13 PM Permalink

BOOM.... And millions are dead. Evil. Pure Evil. http://bit.ly/2Dhmy7J

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eatthebanksters stizazz Jan 18, 2018 5:17 PM Permalink

I think I am going to advance my move date to Jackson, WY.

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The Alarmist eatthebanksters Jan 18, 2018 5:33 PM Permalink

🎶 If you're blue

And you don't know where to go

Why don't you go where DC sits

Putin on the blitz 🎶

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rsnoble The Alarmist Jan 18, 2018 5:52 PM Permalink

Lmao

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Joe Trader rsnoble Jan 18, 2018 6:25 PM Permalink

TR3-B.

Does Russia have anything similar?

How about all the assertions made by Ben Rich?

- "We also know how to travel to the stars."

  "Anything you can imagine we already know how to do."

  "If you've seen it in Star Trek or Star Wars, we've been there and done that."

  "We have things in the Nevada desert that are alien to your way of thinking
  far beyond anything you see on Star Trek."

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auricle Joe Trader Jan 18, 2018 6:35 PM Permalink

As more and more countries become nuclear, and advanced countries cement their place as leaders in nuclear, the West is quickly losing their leverage. Financial war leads to Military war. And war as described in this article is unthinkable which makes financial war unthinkable. A new financial system is in the making, or else.

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macholatte auricle Jan 18, 2018 6:50 PM Permalink

Hold on now.
So Vlad can take out the entire Left Coast.
Is that so bad?
Should we take up a collection?
Honey, get Vlad on the phone.

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BaBaBouy macholatte Jan 18, 2018 8:48 PM Permalink

100 MegaT Murder Insanity... ? Lets just all drop this Nuclear Shit.

How about we just see who can put a Live Man on the Moon First...

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RovingGrokster macholatte Jan 18, 2018 9:31 PM Permalink

Let me see now - One at LA, one straight through the Golden Gate bridge, and most of the enemies of the republic would be wiped out. I keep telling my CA friends that Texas is a better place for high tech - now would be a good time.

So, does New California secede, or does Vlad delete Old California for them?

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two hoots auricle Jan 18, 2018 6:56 PM Permalink

Once we go down that road "what difference does it make?" No side with nuclear arms will tolerate defeat without a last blast effort in a "if we don't survive, no one will". The End

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joeyman9 two hoots Jan 18, 2018 9:10 PM Permalink

What do you mean "we"?

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August Joe Trader Jan 18, 2018 8:23 PM Permalink

Wunderwaffen!

They will, when all seems lost, make Amerika Great Again.

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Volkodav The Alarmist Jan 18, 2018 9:20 PM Permalink

Puttin' on the Ritz Sparrow Hill Mockba 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacelnX3VSQ

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Baron von Bud eatthebanksters Jan 18, 2018 5:39 PM Permalink

Popular Mechanics is the same propaganda magazine that "proved" the twin towers weren't brought down by explosives. Right after 9/11. Hardly trustworthy.

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SantaClaws Baron von Bud Jan 18, 2018 6:18 PM Permalink

Christopher Bollyn did an excellent essay on the how CIA-related persons took over Popular Mechanics shortly before the PM pr-government propaganda article on the Twin Towers was published. http://www.bollyn.com/the-hidden-role-of-the-cia-at-popular-mechanics-2/

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Cynicles II Baron von Bud Jan 18, 2018 6:20 PM Permalink

DC would be a great place for a nuclear FF.

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bonin006 Baron von Bud Jan 18, 2018 8:21 PM Permalink

40 years ago Popular Mechanics was a good magazine that I read all the time. Then I got busy with whatever and stopped reading it for years. It might of been 15 or 20 years ago I was looking at one on the news stand and thinking it was less serious than the Enquirer.

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GoinFawr bonin006 Jan 18, 2018 9:07 PM Permalink

40 years ago PM had great ads for Doctor approved smokes!

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kbohip eatthebanksters Jan 18, 2018 6:32 PM Permalink

"Woohoo we're safe here in Wyoming!" "Hey, what's that rumble? Come to think of it, I don't remember there being a huge ash cloud over there by Yellowstone yesterday either."

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gatorengineer eatthebanksters Jan 18, 2018 7:26 PM Permalink

to those of you thinking of hiding inland. I hear that Putin also has an atomic powered tunneling machine that can carry 5 wet firecrackers....

You never go full retard, and the US went there a long while ago

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Pol Pot eatthebanksters Jan 18, 2018 7:52 PM Permalink

1. Mistake...Cheney country...he's a prime target

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edotabin stizazz Jan 18, 2018 6:47 PM Permalink

Man, you are dense. Around here, this is fantastic! The best weapon ever made! Yahoo!!! Yay!! Moar! Moar!

Get with the program!!

Lol

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Proofreder edotabin Jan 18, 2018 9:25 PM Permalink

We must not allow

a Doomsday Gap !!! (wish we had one of those things)

Dr. Oddsex, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb, Bomb, Bomb

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Dilluminati stizazz Jan 18, 2018 7:04 PM Permalink

Russian evil is nearly unlimited. This is their true nature.

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francis scott … Dilluminati Jan 18, 2018 8:42 PM Permalink

> You're just angry because you think one of them is

> aimed at your mother's basement on Coney Island.

> And you don't want to miss all those All-You-Can-Eat

> kosher buffets on the Mitzvot Wagon every week.

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blahzay Stuck on Zero Jan 18, 2018 5:22 PM Permalink

You're right. It is so fake it makes fake look fake. This is the same fake BS we did to Russian with Star Wars - which has never happened yet in large part caused the downfall of the USSR. Turn-about is fair play.

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Chupacabra-322 blahzay Jan 18, 2018 5:33 PM Permalink

Nuclear Weapons are so 1960’s.

These Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths will use the advanced Laser & other Weapon Systems before resorting to the Nuclear Sampson Option

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inhibi Chupacabra-322 Jan 18, 2018 5:49 PM Permalink

Nuclear is so old school.

Economics is the #1 way to bring a country down maybe paired with a nice assassination, i mean "helicopter accident", if the ruler doesn't bow down.

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francis scott … inhibi Jan 18, 2018 8:45 PM Permalink

> But don't they go back a lot further than the 60's?

> ALL THE WAY TO THE BIG BANG?

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Ophiuchus Chupacabra-322 Jan 18, 2018 6:04 PM Permalink

Cull the obsolete while maintaining the infrastructure would be most logical.

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Lore Chupacabra-322 Jan 18, 2018 7:12 PM Permalink

It seems significant that something like this is "leaked" NOW, indicating that the highest possible stakes are being played in some kind of international geopolitical poker. We know or can guess at some reasons. The purpose of "leaking" such information is not to suggest intent that it will ever be used, but to force the other side/s to re-evaluate their position, play by rules and negotiate in good faith. Such revelation may take time to penetrate thick skulls. It's the ultimate stick. Kim Jong Un's recent demonstrations are intended to serve the same purpose.

When SHTF, little people need to worry more about practical matters like breakdown in rule of law, famine and disease.

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Ophiuchus Lore Jan 18, 2018 7:59 PM Permalink

Keeping it simple ... What value is found, today, in anything that does not support it’s own existence? How would famine and disease serve the greater good of those with the ability to survive? Once again, what value, today, is found in anything that does not support it's own weight/existence? There's some reason {{they}} have not pulled the trigger.

There’s got to be some way to trigger it !

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francis scott … Ophiuchus Jan 18, 2018 8:58 PM Permalink

> Please allow me to introduce myself

> I'm a man of wealth and taste :oD

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Ophiuchus francis scott … Jan 18, 2018 9:16 PM Permalink

It's not that simple. Baphomet is a myth in every sense ... To the fictitious 'it', prove me wrong.

Anyway, back to you. At this time, I'm searching Luke 17:21 for the trigger.

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mel3 Stuck on Zero Jan 18, 2018 5:23 PM Permalink

nobody move, or the - gets it.

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New_Meat mel3 Jan 18, 2018 5:39 PM Permalink

"Oh God, he's serious!!!!"

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mel3 New_Meat Jan 18, 2018 5:44 PM Permalink

sorry. what? i'm underground. look at the idiot comment below me. his boys.

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BlindMonkey mel3 Jan 18, 2018 5:57 PM Permalink

There will never be another movie made like that in my lifetime.

Sad.

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Cynicles II mel3 Jan 18, 2018 6:17 PM Permalink

nagger?

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mel3 Cynicles II Jan 18, 2018 6:31 PM Permalink

i prefer - inclusive.

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Nexus789 Stuck on Zero Jan 18, 2018 7:14 PM Permalink

Fake pentagon stuff? Plugging for a couple of trillion more.

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yomutti2 Haus-Targaryen Jan 18, 2018 5:11 PM Permalink

This weapon is a great example of how stupid Russians are. It's the very definition of a weapon that can never be used... unless of course they would like to see every square meter of Russia irradiated by our boys.

What problem do these boneheads imagine they are solving with such a white elephant?

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HominyTwin yomutti2 Jan 18, 2018 5:19 PM Permalink

Mutually assured destruction, i.e., a deterrent. Or are you that fucking stupid?

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east of eden HominyTwin Jan 18, 2018 5:20 PM Permalink

Yes, he IS that fucking stupid. Unfortunately.

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11b40 east of eden Jan 18, 2018 6:21 PM Permalink

Little Yomutti tries hard, but there are many things they didn't teach him in his schul.

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yomutti2 east of eden Jan 18, 2018 6:51 PM Permalink

The Russians have had mutually assured destruction with the US since about 1955. Even today they have something like 4,000 nuclear warheads. The idea that American missile defense can defeat 4,000 Russian missiles is a joke. It probably can't even defeat 4 NK missiles.

Isn't this all obvious, or are you really that stupid?

So once again, what problem does this solve that isn't solved by the other 4,000 Russian warheads? Feel free to contribute your brilliant insights.

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Antifaschistische HominyTwin Jan 18, 2018 5:29 PM Permalink

Can Kanyon somehow be mounted inside an unmanned drone low flying aircraft, and then dropped into the water once the drone gets targeted, or is about to be destroyed, to continue it's journey to SF Bay?

Note: I have zero understanding of warfare technology.

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