Russian Nuclear Weapons Industry

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Chelyabinsk nuclear physicists started to develop the unique characteristics of the charges

http://tass.ru/ural-news/2033285

Ammunition used in the five kinds of carriers of strategic nuclear forces

Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk Region), June 10. / TASS /. Nuclear Center of Snezhinsk (VNIITF, Chelyabinsk region) started the development of new charges with unique characteristics. This was announced by Director of the Center Michael Zheleznov at a meeting with the general director of the state corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Kiriyenko.

"One of our new development center - is used five types of media strategic nuclear forces ammunition with unique characteristics" - said Zheleznov, noting that the center is also engaged in the modernization of existing weapons and charges.


According Zheleznova the past 10 years Snezhinsk Center, which is celebrating 10 June 60 anniversary, put into service 10 types of nuclear weapons.

According to Kiriyenko, in the abolition of nuclear tests, the institute Snezhinsk "not only provides the performance and the modernization of previously developed the charge, but also could provide a forces in combat duty with fundamentally new quality of charges."

"Half of all Russian nuclear power made Snezhinsk. Including all charges made here are used Navy and all of the charges, which are used by the Air Force," - concluded the head of "Rosatom", which is located in the Chelyabinsk region with working visit.

New torpedoes, new hypersonic missiles and new IRBMs require new warheads

Russian missile factory to increase production volume by 17%

Votkinsky Zavod in western Urals is the batch manufacturer of Iskander-M tactical missiles, Topol-M strategic missiles and sea-based Bulava ballistic missiles

IZHEVSK, 28 August. /TASS/. A factory in Udmurtia, western Urals, that manufactures the Bulava and Topol-M ballistic missiles plans to increase the output at the yearend by 17% to $402.2 million, the Director General of the enterprise, Viktor Tolmachov told reporters during a meeting the regional President, Alexander Solovyov in the city of Votkinsk where the factory is located.

"We’re working exactly in compliance with the plan, like we did at the beginning of the year," Tolmachov said. "We’ll finish the year with 27 billion rubles ($402 million at the current exchange rate TASS). We aren’t falling. We’re growing instead and we’ll finish the year with a 17% increase."

At present, Votkinsky Zavod (the Votkinsk Factory) is building up a portfolio of orders for next year.

"We’ve met the production targets for this year and now we’re getting advanced payments for next year," Tolmachov said. "The factory has two or three work shifts a day."

"The volumes of the state defense order are increasing because we’ve earned the reputation of an enterprise that fulfills the state defense orders year after year," he said.

Votkinsky Zavod experts say its output of manufactured items totaled $160 million in the first six months of the year — up 9.2% versus the same period in 2014.

As of 2015, the factory embarked on an investment project worth $83.1 million and aimed at the revamping and technology overhaul of production facilities, which will last continue through to December 2019. The factory plans to spend $21.8 million for the purpose this year.

Votkinsky Zavod is the batch manufacturer of Iskander-M tactical missiles, Topol-M strategic missiles and sea-based Bulava ballistic missiles.

It also manufactures commercial produce, including appliances for the oil and gas industry, nuclear plant equipment, metal-cutting units, and custom-made equipment.

Mike E wrote:Tesla, was in my book, the smartest man that ever lived. It is simply ridiculous the ideas he came up with, which were later "invented" by someone else. I don't doubt that his "crazy" "world changer" weapon ideas couldn't be made...

Tesla is without any doubt one of the greatest minds that ever existed and lived. Sadly not many people know about him, even worse most of the people are not even aware in what fields he contributed. If you ever get chance visit Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, its something really special.

Vann7 wrote:
Tesla had more advanced ideas of military weapons ,that what we have today.. that will make look nukes
that US and Russia have like a weapon for amateurs. Tesla for example investigations claimed it was
possible to manipulate the earth magnetic field and direct it at will , with a powerful enough machine..
and for example manipulate the earth magnetic field and induce a lethal current into another nation and
fry the entire country. Not by launching a missile ,but simply by knowing how to direct energy.. Is Similar to a Lightning but a billion times more powerful and that instead of killing one person it touch, wipe an entire nation. he also claimed that manipulating earth magnetic fields you could create earthquakes and or break the earth in parts..  

You need to supply a reference. This is some BS attributed to Tesla which he would never spout. The Earth's geodynamo is composed
of millions of cubic kilometers of molten iron that cannot be manipulated by anything that humans can produce. If we are talking
about trying to nudge the nonlinear dynamical system with some appropriate small perturbations then 1) it is impossible to model them
to predict the desired solution since in such nonlinear systems errors grow exponentially fast and 2) you could be waiting thousands of
years for your manipulation attempts to even register in a changed progression of the geodynamo circulation.

Tesla had beam weapon ideas that in my view had potential but critical details were "lost".

sepheronx wrote:Quick question: Who still makes the nuclear warheads in Russia? A quick readup on wiki (and cant find anything else) states that Seversk did build make the plutonium but the two plutonium reactors were shut down in a 2003 agreement with US.  So who makes the nuclear material for warheads in Russia and how?  Apparently all of Russias plutonium reactors are closed since 2010.  Are all current warheads using old plutonium?

Let me rephrase my question cause it seems to be quite confusing.

Since Russia has decommissioned its reactors to make weapon grade Plutonium, how is Russia making new warheads?  Using already produced Plutonium from old warheads?  My understanding is that Plutonium degrades over time.

sepheronx wrote:

sepheronx wrote:Quick question: Who still makes the nuclear warheads in Russia? A quick readup on wiki (and cant find anything else) states that Seversk did build make the plutonium but the two plutonium reactors were shut down in a 2003 agreement with US.  So who makes the nuclear material for warheads in Russia and how?  Apparently all of Russias plutonium reactors are closed since 2010.  Are all current warheads using old plutonium?

Let me rephrase my question cause it seems to be quite confusing.

Since Russia has decommissioned its reactors to make weapon grade Plutonium, how is Russia making new warheads?  Using already produced Plutonium from old warheads?  My understanding is that Plutonium degrades over time.

Just in case Fast neuron reactors breed more plutonium then consume and not surprisingly Russia is among leaders in this technology.

Yes, the fast neutron reactors or breeder reactors they are putting into service will create more fuel than they use... and it will be possible to make all the weapons grade material you need with them alone...

GarryB wrote:Yes, the fast neutron reactors or breeder reactors they are putting into service will create more fuel than they use... and it will be possible to make all the weapons grade material you need with them alone...

They seem to have relatively small sizes so System 6 may profit from Rosatom research

In other news..

have anyone heard before about Cobalt Bomb?

Someone posted this in another forum.. and got me wondered
if ever any of this is true.

Some intelligence sheared that the Russia have major project "Cobalt Bomb" project was started in late 80 ts made by soviet scientists. Bomb with in 10,000 megaton capable to wipe out entire continent. The epicenter of explosion is close to a new stars birth in open space

Massive gas centrifuge farm in Russia use for separating uranium isotopes for nuclear fuel and weaponry. Note the 4-layer stack. This photo was taken in the 1990's. At that time the Russians were using 6th generation centrifuge units.

Some intelligence sheared that the Russia have major project "Cobalt Bomb" project was started in late 80 ts made by soviet scientists. Bomb with in 10,000 megaton capable to wipe out entire continent. The epicenter of explosion is close to a new stars birth in open space

Cobalt is an exotic material created during the supernova of a star... all the first stars created were vast clouds of hydrogen and some helium that fall together under the forces of gravity where heat and pressure rapidly increase to the point where fusion is possible.

the likelyhood that cobalt would be involved in the creation of a new star is next to zero and I have never seen a convincing explaination as to why Cobalt would increase the power of a fusion reaction.... most metals are good conductors and would be bad for fusion reactions.

Cobalt bombs are known to have very high radioactive fallout and initial alpha radiation which polludes and radiates more heavily the environment. Cobalt bombs were banned exactly for that purpose. Militaries who considered use or potential use of nukes to have low as possible radioactivity, because it is hard to use anything of the resources your enemy has on his soil even after decades and with cobalt bombs it would take centuries before the radioactivity is low enough not to fry everything within a minute.


Cobalt bombs are bad for the environment.

H-bombs are acceptable for the environment.

Remember bomb green!

Werewolf wrote:Cobalt bombs are known to have very high radioactive fallout and initial alpha radiation which polludes and radiates more heavily the environment. Cobalt bombs were banned exactly for that purpose. Militaries who considered use or potential use of nukes to have low as possible radioactivity, because it is hard to use anything of the resources your enemy has on his soil even after decades and with cobalt bombs it would take centuries before the radioactivity is low enough not to fry everything within a minute.


Cobalt bombs are bad for the environment.

H-bombs are acceptable for the environment.

Remember bomb green!

Have anyone any info on this? is sth new ICBM?

Icarus complex, R-36M3 / 15A18M2 (draft)

DATA FOR 2016 (standard completion)
The complex "Icarus", the R-36M3 / 15A18M2 (draft)

The heavy intercontinental ballistic missile, the fifth generation. Preliminary design and rocket complex was developed in the design office "South" (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) under the leadership of the USSR Academy V.F.Utkina in 1991. The project was discontinued in 1991-1992 In some sources as the reason for the termination of the development known as SALT-2 talks, but most likely there were several reasons. The same can not be ignored, and the nationalization of certain developing ICBMs to Russian Strategic Missile Forces. The index of the literature 15A18M2 mistakenly attributed to the rocket R-36M2. As the project "Icarus" is sometimes mistakenly attributed index 15A19. Starting and ground equipment: Presumably intended use ICBM silos 15A18M.

http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-851.html

Russian ICBM developer recently bought 18 licenses for Siemens PLM Software - Product Lifecycle Management

Source: https://news.rambler.ru/politics/33792294/

Militarov wrote:Russian ICBM developer recently bought 18 licenses for Siemens PLM Software - Product Lifecycle Management

Source: https://news.rambler.ru/politics/33792294/

I am pretty certain some heads will roll or someone will step up and demand that the software is either not used or something else.  As well, why not use an open source PLM one? it exists.

I believe someone was paid off and trying to use excuses.  Although, I imagine the software operates in a closed environment meaning that whatever "back doors" cannot access outside connections anyway thus limiting or depleting any chance of damage.

But it is a waste of money to purchase any western...anything.  As mentioned, an open source one exists.  Eventually someone will build one based upon its code.

Such news will just cause a stir, which is good.

sepheronx wrote:

Militarov wrote:Russian ICBM developer recently bought 18 licenses for Siemens PLM Software - Product Lifecycle Management

Source: https://news.rambler.ru/politics/33792294/

I am pretty certain some heads will roll or someone will step up and demand that the software is either not used or something else.  As well, why not use an open source PLM one? it exists.

I believe someone was paid off and trying to use excuses.  Although, I imagine the software operates in a closed environment meaning that whatever "back doors" cannot access outside connections anyway thus limiting or depleting any chance of damage.

But it is a waste of money to purchase any western...anything.  As mentioned, an open source one exists.  Eventually someone will build one based upon its code.

Such news will just cause a stir, which is good.

I was thinking the same thing as well, Im pretty sure anything Western tech sold to Russia will most likely be rigged with backdoor function and loaded with all other evil secret surprises to sabotage Russia in anyway possible

Project Canada wrote:

sepheronx wrote:

Militarov wrote:Russian ICBM developer recently bought 18 licenses for Siemens PLM Software - Product Lifecycle Management

Source: https://news.rambler.ru/politics/33792294/

I am pretty certain some heads will roll or someone will step up and demand that the software is either not used or something else.  As well, why not use an open source PLM one? it exists.

I believe someone was paid off and trying to use excuses.  Although, I imagine the software operates in a closed environment meaning that whatever "back doors" cannot access outside connections anyway thus limiting or depleting any chance of damage.

But it is a waste of money to purchase any western...anything.  As mentioned, an open source one exists.  Eventually someone will build one based upon its code.

Such news will just cause a stir, which is good.

I was thinking the same thing as well, Im pretty sure anything Western tech sold to Russia will most likely be rigged with backdoor function and loaded with all other evil secret surprises to sabotage Russia in anyway possible

surprise surprise recently Shuvalov said that Russian companies should first offer software better than west before state companies should buy it...is this sheer idiocy or outright sabotage? could Israeli or US deputy first minister support products from geopolitical foes ?


so only siemens right ?
https://sourceforge.net/directory/business-enterprise/enterprise/plm/os:linux/

A new SLBM?

Sputnik

The Russian "Academician V.P.Makeyev State Rocket Centre" is planning to develop a new ballistic missile, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reports.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to the newspaper, the ballistic missile could be sea-based and could come to replace the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, first deployed in 2013 on fourth-generation Borei-class submarines.

The new ballistic missiles could be used on nuclear submarines of the fifth generation (Husky-class) that are currently under development, according to Izvestia.

It would seem that Makeyev is busy.

They're not even done with Bulava variants yet and a new slbm ? Maybe he was talking about Bulava variant.

max steel wrote:They're not even done with Bulava variants yet and a new slbm ? Maybe he was talking about Bulava variant.

A rebuilt Bulava almost back to square one... Bulava is just not cutting it. Tried to build off the Topol M and Yars ICBM design but it is not working at sea from submarines.

This is for next generation slbm that would be commissioned 15 years from today , has nothing to do with bulva thats commissioned and operational