The Secret Nuclear Torpedo Plans Accidentally Seen On Russian TV Stations

The Kremlin has admitted that Russian television accidentally showed secret plans for a nuclear torpedo system on air.

Plans for a secret Russian nuclear torpedo, shown during a TV broadcast. Photograph: Russian state television.

Two Kremlin-controlled channels, NTV and Channel One, showed a military official looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons system called Status-6, designed by Rubin, a nuclear submarine construction company based in St Petersburg.

The nuclear torpedoes, to be fired by submarines, would create “zones of extensive radioactive contamination making them unsuitable for military or economic activity for a long period”, says the document, which is clearly visible in the footage for several seconds.

The images were filmed during a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with military officials in the Black Sea city of Sochi on Monday.

The footage was aired on Tuesday and later deleted by the channels, but several websites still published screenshots from it.

The Guardian

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