RETURN OF THE DOOMSDAY MISSILE

Will Russia’s Burevestnik end like America’s Project Pluto?

- JOHN DOBSON

In a week when an irritated Donald Trump announced sanctions against Russia's two largest oil companies, reportedly because negotiations over a ceasefire deal in Ukraine had stalled, Moscow announced the first successful test of its nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik. Coincidence? Possibly, but it was back in 2018 that President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new generation of “invincible” weapons, describing the Burevestnik as a revolutionary missile capable of unlimited range and unpredictable flight paths, perfect for bypassing Western missile defences. It was said at the time that when Putin released the video of how astrike with the Burevestnik might work, showing an animated missile crossing Europe, turning south down the Atlantic, bending around the Cape of Good Hope, then dodging US-missile defence systems to detonate in Florida, President Trump's orange face went white with fear!