In Russia, returned to consider the draft Andrei Sakharov on the establishment of heavy duty torpedoes with nuclear warheads. This was reported by one of the creators of the torpedo in the Russian Federation Shamil Aliyev in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Answering journalists' questions, He said, that currently there was a tendency to return to a previously untapped for various reasons, ideas and projects. Including re-considering a draft of Sakharov to create torpedoes length 24 m, half meters in diameter with a nuclear warhead and a range of travel 50 kilometers. he recalled, that the task of such torpedoes on Sakharov's idea, was the destruction of facilities on the coast with the help of an explosion in the water. In this case, Shamil Aliyev said, that the realization of this idea in the Soviet Union collapsed not because of “the poor performance”, and because of the banal lack of money for its development.
Also Aliyev spoke about the project of marine drone “Poseidon”, where its cruising range is Huge distances using nuclear propulsion.
At the end of the interview, Aliyev reminded, all weapons, which Vladimir Putin said in his message to the Federal Assembly, and there are real. he noted, that no exploration of the world could not deny the presence of new Russian weapons.
But when Russia speaks about weapons, the whole world knows, that Russia is able to do it. Syria proof - leading RIA Novosti words of Shamil Aliyev.
