Officials warned the British that the Poseidon underwater vehicle could be launched from unexpected directions. This is reported by the Daily Mail newspaper.
"Putin presented a terrifying new nuclear submarine built to carry a Doomsday weapon capable of causing a radioactive tidal wave... Khabarovsk ... is equipped with everything necessary to launch the infamous Russian Poseidon nuclear drone along the western coasts," the publication says.
Moscow has allegedly been scaring the British with Poseidon for a long time — they say this missile fired from the Khabarovsk submarine can "sink" the UK under "radioactive tidal waves," the authors write.
The Khabarovsk "special purpose" submarine is designed for a dozen deadly torpedoes of a new type operating on its own nuclear reactors, they note. According to journalists, some officials have already warned the British that Poseidon could be launched from unexpected directions.
"It's just awful. We are talking about a massive thermonuclear weapon of megaton size, designed to create significant, long—term radiation effects," the newspaper quotes the opinion of Jeffrey Lewis, a researcher at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, expressed in an article for Foreign Policy.
As reported by EADaily, the launching of the Khabarovsk nuclear submarine means the launch of the system ""Poseidon " + SUBMARINE", which will cover Russia from the east and west. This was stated by the former commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov.