Russian doomsday torpedo is real

The U.S. has confirmed that Russia is developing a giant nuclear torpedo capable of wiping out a coastal city


KANYON (Known in Russia as Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6)

Specifications (est.) 
Speed: 100 knots (185km/h)
Range: Up to 10,000km
Max. operating depth: 1,000m

Warhead: 100-megaton thermonuclear weapon is twice as powerful as Tsar Bomba – most powerful nuclear device ever detonated

Pump-jet
Gearing
Steam turbine
Powerplant: Nuclear reactor
Guidance, Navigation & control
Fuse 
Collision avoidance sonar
24m


KHABAROVSK SUBMARINE
Main launching platform of Kanyon likely to be new nuclear-powered Khabarovsk submarine

Khabarovsk thought to be custom built to field up to six Kanyon torpedoes fired forward

120m

Two side-by-side pressure hulls in bow

Weapon: Reported to be “salted” with highly radioactive cobalt-60, rendering contaminated
areas off-limits to humanity for up to 100 years

Tsunami up to 500m high would carry contamination far inshore, devastating vast areas


Sources: Global Security Drawings based on rendering by naval analyst H.I. Sutton 
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