Here are the sights of Russia’s latest naval military exercises

The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

Despite the EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus and despite the biden administration's multilateral policy of anti-Russian and anti-Chinese containment, the use of nuclear deterrence continues to play a decisive role as during the Cold War as it stands. demonstrate the naval military exercises by Russia in the Barents Sea – which saw the participation of about 20 boats, including warships and submarines, 10 helicopters and airplanes with the aim of safeguarding Russian sovereignty in the Arctic – and in the Sea of Norway.

In fact, on 2 July the Northern Fleet carried out extensive checks in order to test the effectiveness of the new submarine weapons at a depth of 500 meters in terms of deterrence.

Reference is made on the one hand to the Poseidon 2M39 nuclear submarine torpedo and the hypersonic Zircon missile.

While Poseidon is an unmanned torpedo equipped with a nuclear reactor born with the purpose of overcoming naval defenses – as well as being capable of carrying nuclear warheads several megatons – Zircon is a hypersonic missile that is compatible with both surface naval units. both with submarines and is therefore a strategically flexible weapon.

Its speed can reach up to 2.60 km / s and can reach an altitude of about 20 km. The maximum range of this missile is around 1000 km.

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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-le-mire-delle-ultime-esercitazioni-militari-navali-della-russia/ on Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:32:00 +0000.