Putin fires nuclear torpedo in second Armageddon test

Vladimir Putin has fired a nuclear torpedo capable of reducing vast coastlines to uninhabitable wasteland in a new test he has hailed as a “huge success”.

The Russian despot successfully tested the new weapon – versions of which the US and UK have in their vast nuclear arsenals – capable of causing radioactive tsunamis that could make entire coastlines uninhabitable.

He said: “For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time. There is nothing like this. This is a huge success.”

Putin added that the power of the torpedo, named Posideon, exceeded the Russian developed Sarmat intercontinental missile, otherwise known as the SS-X-29, or, infamously, Satan II.

He said: “The Poseidon’s power significantly exceeds the power of even our most promising Sarmat intercontinental range missile.”

The test is the latest over the last week, with Russia^[1] having set off the “Flying Chernobyl^[2]” in another practice just a matter of days ago.

Moscow’s top general claimed Russia tested the low-flying experimental cruise missile, said to be powered by a nuclear reactor and capable of travelling at infinite range, was successfully tested on Sunday.

The missile, known in Russia as the Burevestnik but code-named “Skyfall” by NATO, has “capabilities in evading missile and air defence systems”, said General Valery Gerasimov.

He said: “The technical characteristics of the Burevestnik missile effectively allow it to be used with guaranteed accuracy against highly protected targets at any distance.”

The test was seen as a message to Donald Trump^[3] after plans for a meeting in Budapest over the war in Ukraine^[4] broke down earlier this month.

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