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Putin announced that the test launch was a \u201chuge success\u201d on Wednesday. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\nRussian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country\u2019s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis.<\/p>\n
The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a \u201chuge success.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,\u201d Putin said. <\/p>\n
Putin announced that the test launch was a \u201chuge success\u201d on Wednesday. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a huge success,\u201d Putin said, adding that the destructive power of the Poseidon surpasses the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, ominously known as the Satan II, which can carry 15 nuclear warheads<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Poseidon\u2019s power significantly exceeds the power of even our most promising Sarmat intercontinental range missile,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n While not much is publicly known about the Poseidon, reports estimate that the weapon <\/a>is capable of carrying a 2 megaton warhead \u2014 or more than 150 times the power of the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.<\/p>\n They are designed to trigger radioactive tsunamis up to 1,600-feet high from hundreds of miles away, according to Russia state media.<\/p>\n The foreboding Poseidon test comes just days after Putin ordered another nuclear drill and on Sunday confirmed Russia had successfully tested its \u201cinvincible\u201d nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, which experts have dubbed a \u201ctiny flying Chernobyl.\u201d<\/p>\n Putin announced the Poseidon and Burevestnik projects in 2018 in response to the US withdrawal in 2001 from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and NATO\u2019s expansion.<\/p>\n Russia may have previously tried and failed<\/a> at an attempt to test the Poseidon in 2022 during the first year of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n![\"Poseidon\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vladimir-putin-said-russia-successfully-114417285.jpg\")
The Poseidon torpedo is 150 times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima. Russian Ministry of Defense<\/p>\n