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The nuclear-powered cruise missile is not a new idea.

https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa The idea of the nuclear-powered missiles and rockets is not new and during the Cold War, the United States military created the idea of using the nuclear reactor in the high-speed cruise missile. A benefit for that missile was that it could fly even years with extremely high speed, but the problem was pollution, what denied the testing of that weapon. That missile could fly across the earth by using the nuclear reactor, but the project canceled because the pollution was the problem. That attempt was called as "PROJECT PLUTO". This nuclear-powered ramjet engine was very simple. The burning fuel was replaced with the nuclear reactor, what would give an extremely powerful punch for that weapon, and the idea was to make supersonic cruise missile, what was full of sub-warheads, and what was capable to destroy multiple targets in the Soviet Union. The pollution of that engine was extremely high, and the radioactive fallout...

About Russian hypersonic missile and strengths and weaknesses about hypersonic cruise missiles

(Picture I) Kimmo Huosionmaa Russia has said, that it would have the new hypersonic missile, what can knock out any U.S Carrier from the sea. This concept is not actually very new, and the beginning of this weapon is in the early 90's when the Soviet Union collapsed. In that time engineers worked with the new type of weapon, what based on the ramjet-propellant hybrid missile, that could avoid U.S air defense. Hypersonic missiles have many strangenesses but also weaknesses, and one of those weaknesses is that those missiles cannot make many curves, what makes probably possible to calculate their flight route and the target, and the heating of the nose can also allow targeting the missile with infrared systems. This can help the target to predict the attack, and send the anti-aircraft missiles against those hypersonic weapons. The weapon was meant for a shoot to ballistic trajectory by using conventional ICBM missile like SS-19 or it's the first stage, and then the mis...

The “Sarmat” missile

"Sarmat" missile (Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa “Sarmat” is nothing like any other ICBM. This weapon is mobilized version of the SS-18 (R36) missile, what was the largest thermonuclear weapon in the world. It has more warheads and capacity to raise those weapons in the orbital trajectory. This weapon is actually FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System”, what is tested by the Soviet Union and the possible USA in 1960’s. Those weapons have huge weapons load, what makes them very terrible. In those weapons is MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles) what can be targeted to same target or different places around the world. This kind of FOBS-weapons can send to orbital trajectory weeks or even years before shooting order. They can play normal satellites, and when the order of action comes, the satellite would start to drop nuclear weapons to their targets. This eliminates the way to locate those weapons by using its communication signals as the tip. I...