Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia conducted a test of the Poseidon underwater vehicle on October 28.
According messages According to Russian media, during a meeting with military personnel participating in hostilities against Ukraine, Putin stated that the power of Poseidon allegedly exceeds the power of the Russian Sarmat intercontinental missile.
"Yesterday we conducted another test, another promising complex, this is the unmanned underwater vehicle "Poseidon", also with a nuclear power plant," Putin said.
The Russian President said that Poseidon is supposedly equipped with a small nuclear installation, which is a thousand times smaller than a submarine's nuclear reactor.
"The most important thing is that if a conventional reactor starts up within hours and days, weeks, then this nuclear reactor starts up within minutes and seconds," the head of the Kremlin noted.
He noted that during the tests of Poseidon, it was possible to launch a nuclear power plant, on which the device "passed a certain amount of time."
