34 Replies to “New Wonder Weapon?”

  2. Oooh, oooh, oooh.
    I want one for Christmas!

    If I write to Vladimir, do you think he might send me one?

    1. rumour is Vlad is the original st nicks great great nephew. there has been a
      succession of santas ya know.
      hey. got l an idea. who knows how to set up a go-fund-me for one?

  3. Somebody tell the little prick Putin that there are no winners in mutually assured destruction. What little is left of Russia will be speaking Mandarin.

    1. Many years ago Putin warned the Americans and the Europeans that there would be consequences for moving American nuclear weapons closer and closer to the borders of Russia. The Bursvestnik is one of those consequences.

      1. Mutually assured destruction is the policy. Use a nuke, eat a nuke. Have you ever considered reading a book?

  4. Nonsense. Russia is: bankrupt, completely out of munitions, completely out of soldiers, losing in Ukraine, Putin died 2 months ago, using WWII tanks, getting millions of soldiers killed, lost the space race, using ‘expired’ nuclear weapons, desperately homophobic …

    What else have I read in the Daily Mail about WW Reddit ?

      1. Might be some truth to that …. considering what f’kn junk new washing machines are.

    1. rumour is Vlad is the original st nicks great great nephew. there has been a
      succession of santas ya know.
      hey. l got an idea. who knows how to set up a go-fund-me for one?

    2. b.s. for sure lm not a nuke engineer but the source of energy from radioactive source l bet cannot be produced as fast as chemical. the increased energy need to keep thing flying vs add’l weight there is a limit to the tradeoff. there will be limitations from the basic question horse power l guess

      1. Yup, I also call B.S. on yer post and srawdick’s post. This concept emulates what they were testing years ago for Sub drives.

    3. “B.S. meter is pegged on this one. Looks like world class propaganda.”

      That was my first thought as well. This technology has been attempted before by other nations, and abandoned as untenable.

  7. Any claim coming out of Russia has to be doubted 99% of the time. Prior to the war the entire world viewed Russia’s army as second only to the USA…. After little Ukraine stopped the Russians dead in their tracks the truth became clear. Other than having nukes, Putins army has less capability that Sadam’s had. The Russians cannot even get air superiority over Ukraine…. That fact alone is all you need to know. Putin’s army is a paper tiger.

    2. “The Russians cannot even get air superiority over Ukraine…. That fact alone is all you need to know. Putin’s army is a paper tiger.”

      Maybe. They still take more Ukrainian territory every day, though, and will not stop until they decide to do so on their own.

  9. I call BS on a nuclear reactor light enough to put in an aircraft, with enough fuel to operate for months, and capable of powering a turbine engine that can push a heavy payload.

    The nuclear reactors used in spacecraft were lightweight, but generated only a few milliwatts. The nuclear reactors in submarines weigh around a thousand tons.

  10. I call BS on a nuclear reactor light enough to put in an aircraft, with enough fuel to operate for months, and capable of powering a turbine engine that can push a heavy payload.

    The nuclear reactors used in spacecraft were lightweight, but generated only a few milliwatts. The nuclear reactors in submarines weigh around a thousand tons.

    Even if you decided to irradiate your personnel and forego shielding the reactor, it would weigh an enormous amount – unless the Russians have discovered a new nuclear wonder fuel and a way to scale up thermoelectric generators.

    1. Grok estimates that a nuclear reactor capable of propelling a cruise missle indefinitely would weigh between 1 to 5 tonnes.

      1. Thanks for that.

        However, I think Grok is being optimistic. Realistically you have to factor in a turbine and generator as well, because It’s doubtful that a thermoelectric generator would work at that scale.

        But who knows? I could be wrong.

  11. Nuclear jet engine, huh? Oooh, sounds super sci-fi.

    The Americans built them in the 1960s and decided that they weren’t worth the trouble. Mid-air refueling is easier, cheaper and better. It was on Discovery Channel.

    Putin is an imbecile.

  12. Skepticism is warranted on this one. And even if it works as advertised (no sure thing), military analysts say there are better ways to deliver nuclear warheads.

    It might be an attempt to convince the US not to build the Golden Dome.

  13. FUD
    Fear.
    Uncertainty.
    Doubt.
    These are the tools that the bureaus prefer.
    They also work against other bureaus.

    Maybe the Russians have solved some fairly major, power to weight issues,or maybe they see our governments as so stupid that they will believe anything..
    Option 2 is my guess.

  14. What is this, about the 8th new wunderwaffen that will totally negate any technology of the West and have the evil Yankees on their knees that they’ve come up with in the past 5 years?
    I remember with the S-300s, then -400s, -500s soon to come were supposed to stop American tech in its tracks. *notice I didn’t say they don’t work, just that they fell very far short of all the hype they got when they were rolled out (but hey, that’s usually always how marketing works)

    The question isn’t: ‘does this stuff exist and can it work?’. The real question is: ‘why the need to constantly tout a new, invincible weapons system?’….the frequency is quite noteworthy.

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