{"id":528746,"date":"2025-10-26T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528746\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:32:19","slug":"vladimir-putin-tests-new-invincible-nuclear-weapon-in-15-hour-9000-mile-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528746\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin tests NEW ‘invincible’ nuclear weapon in 15-hour, 9,000-mile flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has launched a brand-new nuclear weapon in a round-the-world missile test, the country’s defence chief has said.<\/p>\n

The “Burevestnik” rocket is both nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable. It boasts an almost unlimited range and an unpredictable flight path.<\/p>\n

The missile travelled 14,000 km (8,700 miles) and was in the air for 15 hours in total.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a statement confirmed that Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov had informed Vladimir Putin of the test.<\/p>\n

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Mr Putin has said the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) – known as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall to Nato – is “invincible”.<\/p>\n

The weapon is about 12 metres long, was first unveiled in 2018, and forms one of six Russian so-called “super-weapons” in Mr Putin’s arsenal.<\/p>\n

This weekend’s Burevestnik tests have now been completed – with work now set to start on a final stage of testing before the missiles are deployed.<\/p>\n

Just after 6am GMT, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that President Putin had travelled to a military command post for top-level talks.<\/p>\n

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A Yars rocket was test-fired from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwest Russia (file photo)<\/p>\n

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There, he met General Gerasimov and more Russian top dogs.<\/p>\n

“All of them gave the supreme commander-in-chief a detailed report on the situation along the line of contact,” Mr Peskov said.<\/p>\n

Just four days earlier, Russia had launched a volley of missiles from a submarine in the Barents Sea<\/a>, the icy stretch of water off Russia’s north coast.<\/p>\n

The sub launched a Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), while a Yars rocket was test-fired from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwest Russia.<\/p>\n

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In August this year, satellite imagery from Planet Labs was said to have shown test preparations of the Burevestnik at Russia’s Pan’kovo test range – again on Novaya Zemlya in the High North.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear whether this weekend’s missile was launched from Pan’kovo.<\/p>\n

Nearby, Norway’s Defence Minister warned that Russia is “building up” on the Kola peninsula<\/a> – where “one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located”.<\/p>\n

Tore Sandvik revealed that Mr Putin’s navy was amassing just miles from the Norwegian border.<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: Defence Secretary John Healey and Norwegian Defence Minister Tore Sandvik<\/p>\n

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He told The Telegraph: “We are the eyes and ears of Nato in this area, and we see that they’re testing new weapons, for example hypersonic missiles, and they are testing nuclear-driven torpedoes and nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n

“Even though Putin is losing heavily in Ukraine he has lost one million soldiers the Northern Fleet is intact. And they are developing it.”<\/p>\n

Recent additions to the Arctic flotilla include a newly constructed frigate and a multi-purpose submarine, completed within the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has launched a brand-new nuclear weapon in a round-the-world missile test, the country’s defence chief has said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,332,978,727,333,26,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-528746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-us-news","12":"tag-vladimir-putin","13":"tag-world","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115439543559939568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}