TASS announced the manufacture of the first super-torpedoes “Poseidon” for the submarine “Belgorod”

by time news

The production of the first ammunition load of Poseidon nuclear supertorpedoes for the Belgorod nuclear submarine (NPS) has been completed, TASS reported, citing a source close to the Defense Ministry.

“The first Poseidons ammunition has been made, the Belgorod submarine will receive them in the near future,” he said. According to TASS, the first separate tests of the main Poseidon units were successful.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense announced that the Belgorod research submarine will become the carrier of Poseidon unmanned attack underwater systems. In February 2019, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced its successful sea testing.

The Belgorod submarine was launched in April 2019 and handed over to the Navy in July 2022. Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, noted that it “opens up new opportunities for Russia in conducting various studies, allows conducting diverse scientific expeditions and rescue operations in the most remote areas of the oceans.

The first information about the nuclear underwater drone “Poseidon” appeared in 2015, in March 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed its development. Such devices should enter service with the Russian fleet in 2018-2027. The task of the complex is supposedly the destruction of enemy nuclear submarines (NPS) and their bases.

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