The Russian military wants to equip the Russian Burevestnik cruise missile with a 2 megaton nuclear warhead.

The newest Russian cruise missile "Burevestnik", in addition to using a nuclear power plant, which allows the ammunition to be in flight for an almost unlimited time, will also receive a powerful warhead - according to media reports, we are talking about a nuclear warhead with a capacity of 2 megatons - this is 133 times more than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

“According to the latest report from the Russian defense industry, the Burevestnik cruise missile, in addition to nuclear engines and conventional warheads, can be equipped with a 2 megaton nuclear warhead. This is enough to raze the enemy city to the ground. If the plan to integrate nuclear warheads for Burevestnik comes into force, Russia will create a line of modern 1-in-1 nuclear missiles that even intercontinental ballistic missiles (limited range) cannot afford. "- сообщает DatViet edition.

Experts pay attention to the fact that a nuclear power plant will allow a cruise missile to accelerate to high speeds and carry a nuclear warhead, while, if the enemy still manages to intercept the missile, then with a warhead of such power, a large amount of energy will be released during the explosion, which simply will disable all electronics within a radius of 400 kilometers, opening up an area of ​​half a million square kilometers for strikes.