Washington Times: Russia is creating an “underwater drone” with nuclear weapons

Russia is creating an “underwater drone” capable of carrying nuclear weapons and threatening US ports and coastal cities.

This is reported with reference to the Pentagon employees of the US newspaper Washington Times.

According to her, the US military department assigned the code name “Canyon” to this Russian secret project.

Other details, according to the publication, are considered information for a very limited circle of people in the US government. The official representative of the Pentagon, to whom the newspaper turned for comment, refused to provide them.

However, the newspaper quotes anonymous US officials who, according to it, are “familiar with the details of the Canyon program.”

According to their statements, the system is “conceived as an autonomous attack submarine armed with a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to tens of megatons.” “This is an uncrewed submarine capable of moving at high speed and over long distances,” said one Pentagon official.

True, he immediately added that even before the creation and testing of a prototype of a new underwater “drone,” as drones are called in the United States, according to American estimates, years will pass.

At the same time, as indicated in the article, the US Navy itself is actively working on the creation of uncrewed submarines, giving these efforts “high priority.”

The former head of the US Strategic Command, Robert Koehler, told the newspaper that the Pentagon is “very closely monitoring Russian efforts towards nuclear modernization.” But he added that he is “not particularly concerned” about such efforts as long as they remain within the framework of the agreement between Russia and the United States on measures to further reduce and limit strategic offensive weapons. This document was signed in 2010 in Prague and, according to experts, continues to be implemented by both parties.