What does Putin fear?

 What does Putin fear?

RDS-220 "Tsar Bomba"

Above this text is the film of dropping "Tsar Bomba", the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The power of that weapon was 57 megaton, but the many layers of highly enriched uranium and plutonium slower the reaction. And the highly radioactive material inside this FFF (Fission Fusion Fission) weapon might mean to deny stealing this weapon. The mass of the bomb was high. The weight of that weapon was 27 000 kg, and the Tu-95 bomber had difficulties fitting it inside in it. 

This weapon required that the tanks of the Tu-95 "Bear" nuclear bomber were removed. And the bomb was hanging below the bomber. The reason for removing the fuel tanks from bomber is probably made for security reasons, that the pilot did not try to steal the weapon. Hanging the bomb called also RDS-220 below the aircraft outside of the bomb bay might seem exotic. 

But the makers of that test made this solution because they wanted that the bomb was visible from escort fighters. So the Western intelligence predicted that 57 megatons RDS-220 was planned to install inside the strategic bomber, what mission was to act as a missile. That means that the remote-controlled aircraft would fly over the target area, and then the bomb was detonated in it. The RDS-220 is base on the weapon, which is installed in the Status-6 nuclear torpedo. 

The Status-6 might have two of those explosives inside them. If the nuclear bomber that dropped the RDS-220 to the Novaja-Zemlja will carry that weapon, it must be connected to the refueling aircraft very often, because there is no room for large fuel storage in the nuclear bomber. 

Rosatom published a newly declassified video of the bomb. The film is involving new details of the preparation for the operation, and film where it hangs over the target area. The reason for publishing that thing might be that the Russian government wants to remind that it still has nuclear weapons in its hands, and some of those weapons are extremely powerful. 

Sources:

Tsar Bomba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

Tu-95 "Bear" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95

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The Economist magazine asks, what Putin fears?

The Economist magazine asks, what Putin fears? The answer is that even Vladimir Putin does not rule his country, Russia alone. There are people, who are cooperating with Putin and the also expect to get something for their support. 

The thing is that the people are not supporting Putin for free, and that thing means that also Putin must remember them, the people who are making imago for that leader, but also members of FSB and OMON wants something for their services. Or do you believe that those men would stand all night long on the streets for free? OMON is an internal security force of Russia, and that thing makes those troops problematic for the government. 

The internal security force is not a so-called "clean" army or military force, what mission is to fight for its country. The mission of those troops is also protecting the power of the leaders of Russia. And they are taking commands from Putin. If they are using tough touch, that thing means that OMON police-officers are saying that they have given orders from Kremlin, what stresses the public imago of Putin himself. 

But the other thing is military technology? Can the Russian military give a challenge to western technology? We know that the Russian military is tough, but the thing that causes some kind of uncertainty in the minds of Russian authorities is does the western military tells everything to the public audience? In the real world usually the more important in the case of military power is the thing that is not told than the things that are told to the public audience. 

When the most powerful nuclear detonator RDS-220 or so-called "Tsar Bomb" exploded the question was why the U.S military didn't answer that test with its own 57 megaton test? The idea in the "nuclear poker" is that when other military force is making the nuclear test with some nuclear device, the other force would answer to that test with similar- or more powerful nuclear weapon test. The same way the Western reactions to Skyfall-nuclear powered missiles and Status-6 nuclear torpedo are a little bit too silent. So what is forgot to tell? 

Even if I have said that the drone swarms are part of the battlefield of tomorrow, I must say that also the jet fighters and attack planes are still necessary. The modern warfare bases in hybrid weapons which means that the drone swarms are operating with the attack planes, and in the front of those planes flies the swarm of drones. And the jet-fighters can be equipped with electromagnetic weapons like microwaves what can sweep drone swarms from the skies. So both actors big and small are needed in the modern combat zone. 

The other thing is that part of the Russian military newest weapons are introduced on the Internet, and you may see them on YouTube by using keywords "Russian new weapons". The problem is that those weapons are introduced in the American channel, and the thing is that the U.S military has not answered in the media. 

Sources:

FSB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

OMON: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMON

Skyfall-missile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (OMS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_System

Image: https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/1684/90/sites/default/files/print-covers/20200829_cuk1280.jpg