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This is very worrisome. The Euro nations need to say that if any nuclear waste lands anywhere outside of Russia and any radiation is blown into their countries then they will respond as if Russia had deliberately dropped a nuke on them.

Russia tests nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, Vladimir Putin wants to deploy it


Trump tells Putin Russian missile test not 'appropriate'

Russia says the 9M730 Burevestnik "Storm Petrel" is "invincible" to current and future missile defences, with an almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight path.
www.abc.net.au
 

I'm not sure that the money required to actually make this missile a threat exists.
 
I hope you are right but Putin always, so far, has managed to fund most of his military wants.

I still think Europe should make it very clear that if they use that Putin, the Kremlin and FSB can expect extinction. No other nations invading, just total demolition of the Kremlin and all major FSB building so that the Russian people can make some better choices than they can when the Putin and the FSB rules the roost.

Not likely to happen unfortunately.
 
Unpredictable flight path? No worries, he will likely bomb himself.
 
I like this part:
"The Burevestnik missile is "invincible" to current and future missile defences, Russian generals say".
As a cruise missile, and rather large one, it will be detected by most current missile defences.
And only stupid very optimistic (intoxicated? drunk?) person can promise the invincibility of today's weapons to future systems.
 
MiTasol said:
I hope you are right but Putin always, so far, has managed to fund most of his military wants.
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Here's a couple of articles if you have the time:

Russia's top banker warns Moscow is fighting the wrong economic battle

Sberbank CEO German Gref said Russia is so fixated on fighting inflation that it's forgetting about economic growth.
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How Russia's mounting economic woes could force Putin's hand – DW – 09/25/2025

The Russian economy is in trouble. Growth has stalled, energy revenues have plunged, and the budget deficit is growing. If the EU and US step up sanctions, things could get more serious still.
www.dw.com

The long and short of it is that capital is in short supply because instead of financing the war with taxes or government bonds, Russia is using private loans to the defense industry for much of it. That is driving inflation, which must be countered by high interest rates, which stifles growth. It's a house of cards that will come down, unless Russia makes peace. The cost of the war is simply outstripping their ability to finance it. At a certain point, those two lines will cross on the graph.
 
MiTasol said:

Russia tests nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, Vladimir Putin wants to deploy it

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I can understand a nuclear-armed weapon, but how does a nuclear-powered missile work?

Is there a little steam kettle inside to run a prop? Or, like the below link, air is compressed through heat from fission and forced out the backside like a jet?

Nuclear-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
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I seem to remember that he said his hypersonic missile was also invincible but Ukraine has shot many of those down. My concern was mainly with the nuclear issues of this new airborne target he and his "experts" have created.
 
Related - Lithuania is the first country to move to FAFO status.

Lithuania vows to shoot down Belarus smuggler balloons disrupting air traffic

Lithuania has drawn up plans to shut its border crossings with Belarus indefinitely, after the capital's airport was repeatedly disrupted by suspected sightings of balloons carrying contraband cigarettes.
www.abc.net.au

I agree with Belarus on the lack of Lithuanian action against the recipients as a part of the problem but I agree more with the Lithuanians that a lot of these balloons are probably launched, not to deliver cigarettes, but to disrupt Lithuanian airports and other civil activities.
 

There was a US proposal to use a series of very small nuclear explosions to propel aircraft and missiles in the 60's and it has recently been discussed in the US to use this thrust system to propel spacecraft to Mars and other planets where they need to carry enough power to reduce velocity to enter orbit around the target planet. The discussions I heard on a podcast (not by choice - the passenger in front of me was playing it loud enough for me to hear whether I wanted to or not) said the system was well advanced before being shut down over 20 years ago but is again under active development. Podcasts unfortunately are like Wiki and AI - NOT reliable
 
Every sci-fi fan knows they're called "Orions".
 
The U.S. tested nuclear powered cruise missiles in the early 60's (project Pluto) and found that conventional powered missiles were faster and harder to detect as well as being too expensive, so the project was cancelled.

Putin's 9M730 Burevstnik smells alot like a Hitler Wunderwaffe weapon that will shock and awe the world into submission - if only he had thousands of them.
 
MiTasol said:
This is very worrisome. The Euro nations need to say that if any nuclear waste lands anywhere outside of Russia and any radiation is blown into their countries then they will respond as if Russia had deliberately dropped a nuke on them.
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And how are we supposed to do that? We do have some minor nuclear powers in the UK and France, but nothing compared to the arsenal that the USA and Russia have. Or our laughable military force that has been neglected over the last 30 years when we thought the USA will solve anything? And the USA will not support us at all in this I think. Putin only has to call the guy in the White House and he will swing to his side.
Threats from Europe are as laughable as the Nuclear threats uttered by Putin.
 
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