Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered super torpedo, dubbed the “doomsday machine”, which it claims could create radioactive tsunamis capable of destroying coastal cities.

The Poseidon, named after the Greek god of the sea, is an nuclear-tipped, strategic-range weapon, somewhere between a torpedo and a drone. It is powered by a small nuclear reactor, which gives it unlimited range.

“There is nothing like this,” Putin said, while visiting wounded soldiers at a hospital in Moscow. New Feature

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“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 ti

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