cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1204623/mit-researchers-russia-s-nuclear-powered-skyfall-missile-is-dirty-and-dangerous
Sometime on Oct. 21 of last year, high above the Arctic Circle, a lone missile shot skyward from a Russian island.
The missile flew northeast and then banked and began flying in loops for hours over the barren, frozen landscape.
According to Russian and Western sources, the new weapon, known in Russian as Burevestnik and by NATO as Skyfall, was powered by a small nuclear reactor. Few other details were forthcoming.
If they could get a closed system where the intake air doesn’t become contaminated, this could work well with things like recon drones where they would be able to stay up in the air indefinitely.
The USA had a missle just like this back in the 70s or something.
There was an entire nuclear powered bomber at one point
How uncivilized, how dare they make dangerous missiles! 😡
sarcasm aside it’s kind of a weird thing to describe something constructed specifically to cause harm as “dangerous”, and completely takes attention away from it being powered by a dirty nuclear powered engine. Which is bordering on a war crime to use.
How many American officials were convicted of war crimes for dropping two nukes?
Aren’t military missiles suppose to be dangerous in the first place?
Dangerous to the target is not the same as being dangerous to everything it passes on the way to it’s target, including friendlies.
