Putin says that the Russian navy will be armed with "Poseidon" nuclear-armed drones
"Poseidon" or "Status-6" (1)multipurpose oceanic system is a series of underwater drones, what mission is to patrol underwater, and then detonate in some areas. The scale of the warhead is probably less than kiloton-sized to even 100 megaton scale fusion devices(2). And the thing is that the "Poseidon" drones might give extremely high strike capacity for the Russian navy(2).
The idea of "Status-6" is the system like "UVB-76" (3) will send "everything is OK" signal to those naval vehicles. If that signal is cut, the multipurpose oceanic system will start the attack operations. And the tsunami, what the 100 megatons nuclear detonator can cause is terrible.
The problem with the Russian navy is the limit of the conventional strike capacity, which bases only the use of missiles. And the Russian only aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" might be rusted to wreck at the harbor(4). So that means that the Russian navy strike capacity lays more and more in the use of submarines and missiles.
And the alarming thing is that NATO stands quiet. We know that Western navies have large-scale drone projects. The thing is that if we are thinking about the highly automatized submarines, what uses the artificial intelligence and computer-based system they can operate by one man.
The use of the virtual user interface means that the 200-meter long submarine can act like some jet fighter and the thing is that the torpedoes and missiles can be pre-loaded to the torpedo tubes, where they are one after other. So the thing, that the controller must do is just select the weapon and push button. The torpedoes, missiles, and mines can be loaded to their tubes that in one tube is one type of weapon.
The "Orca"-class (5) independently operating drone would be the best known western version of "Status-6". But the truth is that the other military forces, like the French and British navy, are interested in the drones, which are operating by artificial intelligence.
And the next step is to create a fully automatic robot submarine, which will operate independently. The submarines have large internal space and powerful engines, which can give the electric support for the supercomputers, which are running artificial intelligence. So the submarines would be excellent platforms for the independently operating weapon systems.
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
(4) http://uawire.org/russian-aircraft-carrier-admiral-kuznetsov-rusted-beyond-repair
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