Russia develops new doomsday weapons 

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"A nuclear arms race is not a Mexican standoff. It's two sworn enemies knee-deep in gasoline, one with three matches and the other with five." Always got a banger at the end 👍

It really annoys me how the russian plan to destroy britian also just casually destroys ireland as well. Like what the hell russia?!? What did we do?

The flying Chernobyl is the nickname for the 9M730 Burevestnik not the Posseidon The image showed as been the Posseidon is actually the Harpsichord underwater drone. The flight trajectory for the Sarmat showed on your video is more consistent with the one for the Avangard hypersonic glider. Sarmat is a balistical missile and as such has a balistical trajectory The Posseidon's warhead is 50 megaton, not 2

At some point, when a group of men are sitting around a table discussing how to create a nuclear Tsunami to turn much of a continent into an irradiated desert, do you think it does or does not occur to anyone that maybe trying to figure out a way to not need a nuclear Tsunami would be the better option? I don't know, maybe I'm just old fashioned.

The threat of them possibly existing is good enough of deterrent. I honestly hope that we never have to find out whether or not these weapons actually exist.

16:25 "Two sworn enemies knees-deep in gasoline, one with 3 matches, the other with 5" I love the fact that you end each video with a quote or with a metaphor. It just give that "insight" good feeling at the end and really shows your depth of understanding.

8:28 According to Wikipedia (sources listed there, as usual), its range is 18.000km. The technique used is called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, which, basically instead of lobbing it up to come down at a specific target area through pure ballistics (in other words, what the V2 already did in WW2), it also includes a course correction once in space so it stays in a low earth orbit, just to shoot a retrograde burst once the destination is reached. And by entering a LEO, it's not suborbital anymore by definition. So basically it's got a flight profile just like a space shuttle with the only difference that it doesn't land safely, but goes boom-boom instead. With that, they could circumvent the NORAD defensive launch detection systems by just launching them in a southerly direction instead of taking a more direct route, but it won't go inbetween the continents like a snake as shown in the video, even though it would probably pass the south pole or at least get close to it. In case it would be suborbital, they'd do it with the "hypersonic" glide vehicle (everything that comes back from space is hypersonic, so it's just a nice buzzword here) and bounce off of the atmosphere several times. Eugen Sänger had that concept already in WW2 with the "Silbervogel", also known as antipodal bomber, with the thing even coming back for a landing after dropping stuff on the other side of the planet. In a nutshell, there's nothing groundbreakingly new here at all.

Fun fact there is also a US design for a similar concept called the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) that was meant to be a multitarget cruise missile that would after delivering its final hydrogen bomb begin flying a pattern to irradiate the countryside with its open cycle nuclear ramjet. Its engine was tested before the entire program was canned because of the successful tests of the Minuteman and Titan 2 ICBMs. Not to mention being a flying crime against humanity,but the US military is not opposed to those given its usage of drone strikes in densely built areas.

I have Russia family members who had said they intentionally avoided getting a STEM degree because the STEM industry in Russia pays terribly and they could make more by working in a restaurant or retail store. Interesting dynamics.

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Anyone that even remotely thinks the Russian Federation is going to completely irradiate the British isles for the next 25,000 years is so geopolitically naïve as not to even bother considering their opinion. Even if Putin so ordered such an action, the Soloviki that were featured in a recent episode of this channel would Very quickly decide that Putin very badly needed a rest. Soviet nuclear and now Russian nuclear policy has Always regarded use of either tactical or strategic nuclear weapons as weapons of last resort. I see nothing that has changed. Furthermore none of us have even the slightest idea of the classified countermeasures the DOD has really developed nevermind deployed. I've watched for decades now as the SDI program conducted test after test. Supposedly with "disappointing" results. None of which l believed for a second.

0:50 Ireland: what I did to deserve this?

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Excellent final analogy illustrating the absurdity of superweapons.

Those weapons will be terrifying when Russia get one or two of them in production in 2050.

Russia: Develops underwater salt nukes to deployed in salt water against a Satly empire that lost it's empire xD

Considering nukes are already a doomsday weapon im not really worried about it.

Is there actually any evidence that anyone has ever developed a cobalt warhead? I was under the impression that was an internet rumor

I remember my brother who lived in Moscow in the early 2000s, once met a part-time cab driver who said he was part of the Soviet submarine design group & that they designed Titanium alloy submarines (a metal that can't be bent) & was revolutionary back in the day. I thought it was some bluff story exaggerating the decay of the 90s, but after this video it kinda makes sense.

This piece was okay but I think you're missing some of the bigger picture here: The US and the west have had the capability to develop a missile defense system that would basically negate the entire Russian arsenal's effectiveness since the late 80's. We have a limited amount of these missiles in the ground in a base in Alaska, but we purposefully keep the number low, as you correctly point out, to not tip Russia over the edge. We also use it as a bargaining chip. The missile defense systems in poland and germany were never intended to be used against ICBM's because they are not along the path an ICBM would follow to get to the US. ICBM's would fly over the north pole and through Canada to attack which is the shortest distance. Not over the atlantic. Russia knows this lol. Patriot systems are primarily anti air defense systems that can also take out things like cruise missiles, which can be nuclear tipped. These are considered tactical nuclear weapons though and pose much less threat overall. Russia has had the capability to blow up the entire united states and western europe to kingdom come since the 70's, and we've had the ability to take them with us since then too. Neither side has consciously chosen to negate that edge so as to avoid provoking the other, hence the tense negotiations you describe. Nuclear drone torpedoes provide very little advantage in this measure, because after all, if russia wants to send the united kingdom into a nuclear winter, it doesn't need some scary new drone torpedo to do so. It already posesses the weapons it needs to achieve this goal. All three of these new projects are basically just purely propaganda designed to scare the west and impress people (like you, Caspian report) into falling for it hook line and sinker convincing everyone else that russia is still some relevant and scary power. They're not. Western analysts have been skeptical that poseidon is something Russia will ever be capable of achieving, and now with the onslaught of western sanctions and the general difficulty with obtaining advanced electronics, it's almost certain to set any progress they were making back decades. The west doesn't take russia seriously with these measures because they recognize them for what they are: pure propaganda. And you're just amplifying it.

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What's really terrifying is that it took only one and a half months for the world to deteriorate into this madness that parallels the 40 years of cold-war.

The last time a major power did some so-called "Wonder Weapon", it really didnt go as planned.

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Ah yes, we are back to the good ol' days back when we were scared of a nuclear war every day

Reminds me of the ridiculous Nazi wonder weapons that they were sure would win them the war, and then they lost.

This is the best produced, most informative channel on geopolitics I have come across on the web. Thank you for contribution to educating the general public.

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"Nuclear deterrence is the reason why cold war never turned hot" Loved it

Thank you for the video! I wanted to ask you if you might be able to provide the sources you cited with regard to the organization of the Russian military industries? I am currently working on a research project on the topic. Thank you!

So many underwater nukes detonated in the past, no Tsunamis.

Me in London: Nervous sweating

Only problem for Russia would be the British trident missiles heading the other way

Blowing their budget on this nonsense is why their army is getting spanked

Never understood why you need more than one doomsday device, especially when the first one cant be deactivated.

What Russia fails to realize is detonating that warhead and making a radioactive tsunami would also cause that same wave to wash across Europe, including Kaliningrad and possibly even St. Petersburg. That move would be akin to suicide.

Honestly: The new Russian superweapons are interesting in concept but significantly less terrifying than the thousands of ICBMs they already have.

These wunderwaffe are basically abstractions that look nice on paper which never gets fielded with the level of systemic corruption in the Russian military and defense sector. Even the legacy nukes needs 10 million in upkeep every year. How much of the on paper stockpile have had these funds siphoned off since the 90s? Alas Russia is not the near peer state we estimated it to be. Still, I would like to see them to even try to produce a prototype with the chip shortage we have now given its us that control the strategic source of the type of chips they need as well as retain most of the brainpower behind it

4:10 this side by side shot shows alot in the capitol city philosophies of the US and USSR/Russia. DC is a mostly normal city used as a political center, moscow is a political complex used as a city. it's an expansive megacity for 100km in each direction from the Kremlin. 10 million people, an entire self-contained country with it's own dialect, subculture and economy. DC has this to some extent, but Moscow is really something else.

That was excellent. I love the matches analogy! _Thank you for making these.

ireland be like 1:00 irish: they fucking forgot that we're here!!!

Since most people probably think in radius: 750x stronger yield translates to ~20x the radius

That analogy at the end. Truly a work of literary beauty, captures the situation elegantly while painting a detailed picture.

2018: this are all cartoons, don't believe Russian lies. 2022: Russians 😎

This feels like a video game introduction, and it’s scary.

The last statement about a gasoline match is very accurate.

This feels like an infomercial for a buckling regime... The irony is that so much energy has been dedicated to developing technology for destruction, and none of it can save him from cancer...

Scary, but if these are what Russia is developing what is the U.S. developing with twice the budget?

You consistently put out wonderful content. Ty.

We’ve been waiting for this for 80 years now. Brlng it on Ivan. Bring it on💥🤛

The South Pole idea for Sarmat would still be a ballistic (Great Circle) trajectory. There is no *meaningful* amount of dodging of ground assets; The dodging ("Mid-flight maneuvers") involved with the Sarmat would be on the order of a few tens of meters per second, not the thousand-times-greater impulse you would need to make significant turns in the manner depicted, and it would be for the purpose of avoiding interceptors that are on a fixed ballistic trajectory. Interceptors have inherent issues in retargetability versus timely boost - they work best when they blow nearly all their fuel load in the first few tens of seconds.

At least they told us about the doomsday weapons and didn’t keep it a secret until the party congress meeting on Monday.

Nice movie line from WarGames to start the video! 👍😁

One description of a Doomsday Device: get someone to sit on your shoulders, then have your partner give him a clothesline from the top rope! What a rush!

If Russia is trying to link potential defeat in Ukraine / Crimea with the use of a nuclear deterrent, it's escalating to a nuclear conflict. Russia could not use such weapons without an assured nuclear response. NATO is not at war with Russia, any military attack on NATO would result in a military response.

That pool of gasoline analogy at the end is the best, simplest way to describe MAD that I've ever heard!

I love caspian report. I always get excited for new videos. So smart and great information. Good job

as always spot on and professional thanks, Shirvan

Can't wait for Russia to develop these and have like 2 of them because they can't afford to mass produce expensive things

I absolutely love the analogy at the end!

That analogy at the end made my brain tingle a little. Great video as always btw👌

The flying Chernobyl has to be the most badass nickname for a nuclear ballistic missile meant to be fired from submarines

Doomsday weapons = built for bragging not for actual use.

Thank you for your wonderful work.

Your videos make me wonder how long you think about that famouse last sentence alone. Good job!

'flying chernobyl' i was imaging a literal blimp like structure with nukes on it

Somehow people don’t realize that nuclear war is like two people sitting in the same boat in the middle of the ocean, each with torches threatening to burn the boat.

The old ICBMs from 60 years ago can blow up any city , so how do you improve on that? All ICBMs are hypersonic,they go to orbit at 5000 MPH and increase ti 17,000 MPH once in orbit.

Well done. Keep it up. :)

You forgot about high atitude EMP nuclear explosions. It's a topic rarely occuring, but much more important than what we saw in your material.

Thank you for providing such amazing stuff to your viewers. It's fascinating material. I appreciate all of your efforts. Sincere appreciation!

You always need to mention that all these technological breakthroughs are claimed, not proven. As russia clearly shown in Ukraine, its military is greatly overadvertised.

Russia: "There is NO way to stop this underwater drone." Lockheed Martin 2 weeks later: "Check out the new features of my AUV"

Great video as always. But the 'flying Chernobyl' refers to the nuclear powered Burevestnik cruise missile, not the Poseidon torpedo.

I wouldn’t trust a Russian to boil a kettle so I’ll take my chances 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Russians: Lose the war in Ukraine: Russians: Let's build scarier nukes that we'll never use!

Thanks for the Wargames movie reference.

Hypersonic missiles run very hot due to their speed and can be easily tracked.... Their "surprise attack" utility is over hyped, unless they're used in short range.

There is no such nuclear weapon with this capability. To move such a volume of water would require the same amount of energy as around 10,000 nuclear bombs. This is not possible

*Please make a video on what if Russian federation collapses? What will the Republics of the federation do like Chechnya.*

The quote in the end makes a lot of sense

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The Russians greatly exaggerate the damage done by their dooms day weapons.

Imagine what Russia could produce if it focused its resources and creativity on productive rather than destructive things. It's no wonder that the post warsaw pact countries do not want to have anything to do with Russia.

Nice metaphor at the end there!

I love CaspianReport. This video feels like playing DEFCON. Nuclear war as a looming threat and as a constant deterrent in conflicts is always fascinating. I wish for more videos like this. 🥰🥰🥰

The true question is if they actually work. Russia is known for downplaying the actual obstacles for the weapon to actually work in favour of a cheaper/faster implementation. Plus don’t forget all the G-Wagon’s for the officers

When it’s all layed out like this it makes it easy to see the most effective tool against war is leadership, ability to speak persuasively & the charisma to make change.

Hate to be pedantic, but in a Mexican standoff, no one actually does stand to win. That's why its a standoff.

"Dr. Strangelove" is more alive than ever. MEIN FÜHRER!!! I CAN WALK!

superb outro! and always great insight, guiding us through this crazy time

9:24 - the Russians are copying Syndrome from the Incredibles That looks just like the plane that carries the big robot Haha

A Mexican stand-off is, by definition, a situation where neither of the oponents can fire first and win.

That gasoline analogy at the end it pretty hard…

Their one nuke that doesn't travel by air is nicknamed "the Flying"?

I also wonder how handicapped some of these projects might be due to corruption. If the strategic forces have anywhere near the same corruption as the conventional forces, then a lot of this stuff will probably be a pipe dream for decades

Another fantastic video!

the video is on youtube, it needs to have a specific content for that.

The match analogy was amazing.