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By the end of 2024/beginning of 2025, it is planned to form a division of submarines with a special purpose, which will be armed with the Poseidon supertorpedo, as part of the underwater forces of the Pacific Fleet, a source close to the Russian military.
“A decision has been made to form a division of nuclear submarines with a special purpose in Kamchatka. We are talking about December 2024 or the first half of 2025,” he said.
In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin first broke the news about the Poseidon, saying it was an entirely new type of strategic nuclear weapon powered by its own nuclear power source. During the same speech, Putin added that the torpedo has an unlimited range and can operate at extraordinary depths at a speed several times higher than that of torpedoes launched by ordinary submarines and other vessels./BTA