Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailRussia has designed the world’s biggest dirty “doomsday bomb”, a sleeper weapon on the ocean floor that is activated remotely. (Image: via REUTERS)The Poseidon emerged in 2015 as a nuclear drone, with the power to spark a coastal city-smashing tsunami. But experts now believe this year’s sighting was actually of the Skif, aboard the classified Russian vessel Akademik Aleksandrov during sea trials. The ship was transferred quietly to the Russian navy on April 12 at the Arctic port of Severomorsk, Murmansk. Paul Schulte, former UK MoD arms control director, said: “The Skif appears to bea last-resort doomsday weapon, intended to symbolise that Russia ‘can never be defeated’.

Source: Daily Mirror April 30, 2020 20:25 UTC