The Submersible Nuclear Ramjet: Part Nuclear Bomber, Part Submarine (2018)

[nabla9]

Projet Pluto actually tested the nuclear ramjet engine. Some of the materials research was used in Space Shuttle, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Russians are trying to make modern small version of SLAM called 9M730 Burevestnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

[SiempreViernes]

Isn't it great to live in age of the new nuclear arms race? And all that was needed to get there was to accept the Boltonian percepts that international cooperation is unamerican and unpatriotic!

[twic]

Nuclear Ramjet are also a pretty decent Quebecois psytrance band, not active recently as far as I can tell:

https://nuclearramjet.bandcamp.com/

[leeoniya]

shkval was faster underwater:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval

modern hydrofoils also arose in that era, also in russia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofoil

[undebuggable]

> shkval was faster underwater:

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval

There exists a German design of rocket torpedo from the 40s of the 20th century [1][2]. Looks to me it relies on supercavitation as well? The information plaque claims the launch speed of well over 900 km/h (launched from an airplane though).

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Bombotor...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Bombotor...

[z92]

Till now I was wondering how the infinity range nuclear powered Russian missiles that Putin is developing is supposed to work. I know now. Can see the similarities. This also answers why USA hasn't come up with similar tech. It did. In the 60s. And didn't feel it needed it anymore.

[r721]

>nationalinterest.org

The publisher of The National Interest is Dimitri K. Simes [1], who "went to Moscow and became a moderator of the political program Большая игра ("Big Game") on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov"[2].

Also: "While investigating Maria Butina for illegal foreign agent activities, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly explored her ties to Russian-American political expert and Center for the National Interest president Dimitri Simes"[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Simes

[3] https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/03/07/in-connection-with-mari...

[ailideex]

I can read and understand the words you are wrote but I cannot discern a purpose behind writing them. Is it just random trivia?

[mirimir]

And you wonder why the USSR was so angry and suspicious?

[braythwayt]

They had their own wonder-weapons, some of which (barely) entered service, like the Ekranoplan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

I believe it has been discussed on HN several times.

[ceejayoz]

The Russians are currently testing this sort of nuclear propelled missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident

[rayiner]

The USSR was angry and suspicious because it was a brutal communist regime that relied on purging dissidents and killing millions to stay in power.

[plumednom]

I have always thought that maybe the USSR was pissed off that they lost 20 million people to Hitler while winning World War 2 for us and were never told, "Thank you". You know, instead of thanking them we immediately labeled them enemies and poured all of our resources into rebuilding Germany .. against them.