It was a test for their nuclear powered cruise missile

russia was researching the tech that West largely gave up on

A new weapon

yup, exactly

Why the hell would you put a reactor in a missile, anyway?

And the fallout is insignificant

A rocket that can fly out of the solar system at insane speed through nuclear decay

Nothing to worry about

so it could cruise indefinately

@Goodwood of Dank™ for propulsion

shoot it below radar all the way around the globe

no the fallout is insignificant, its meme factor is all

It's a waste of money and resources.

Well, not indefinitely, but it can fly for thousands of years, given that materials will hold up

Nuclear reactors are great at heating rocket fuel and this propelling the rocket to higher speeds than conventional means

lol so circling the globe for 1000s of yrs

but that does put into question, if the Ruskies are doing it in secret and it slipped up, who knowns what secrets Trump and China maybe hiding

You can send it in a different part of Solar System or even Milky Way

Basically

Nuclear powered cruise missiles are not a new thing

The US had a project of this type during the 50s

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Exactly

that kind of weapon u could launch dozen of them from diff places on the planet and have them all convevge on a targe

They just deemed that " too dangerous and crazy"

They abandoned it during the early 60s because ICBMs became much more convenient

The words that mean nothing for russian

Denying out right that the US, which is still the most advanced military in the world, isn't doing any military research into this tech is a bit short-sighted imo

There was no need for such a weapon

those are two totally different concepts

"Nuklear roket you say? Too dangerous you say? Hold my vodka!"

The US may or may not be researching such a weapon

But the thing is that they don't need to

ICBMs are a hot commodity for any nuclear triad

imaging having 30 of those things sitting around in a bunker, they lauch them all one right a fter another and the missles just swarm a target

it's completely different from an ICBM

US missiles can reach any target on Earth in less than an hour

They really have nothing to worry about

@Andrew Popa 2.0 it is not about ICBMs any more
You are being way too short-sighted my friend

ICBMs aren't cruise missles

Trump has had an interest in the military industrial complex and he is R&Ding the Space Force so who knows lads
i put my bets on yes he is researching nuclear powered tech