Putin's new claims about missile defense systems. Is this the start of a new cold war?

[barbos]

If one were a bit paranoid, one could think that maybe Putin is setting up his buddy, Trump to look good. He's playing good cop, bad cop.

I have a different take (take it or leave it). Putin actually does have embarassing videos of Trump and is betting that Trump will be cowed into doing nothing in response. Something that is very obviously out of character and will cause his base support to lose faith in him. He's using Trump tactics but he's just much better at it due to his KGB training. Also adds to Putin's prestige in the upcoming Russian election by putting Trump "in his place". Not arguing that I want Trump to retaliate. Just saying that its what he normally does.

I know it's hard to realize but not everything revolves about Trump. Yes, Putin has his own elections to win and had to fill his PowerPoint presentation with something good, so he did.

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

 

[Cobalt]

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

Just ditch all the shielding. Air “cooling” is how such devices are designed to be propelled.

 

[barbos]

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

Just ditch all the shielding. Air “cooling” is how such devices are designed to be propelled.

Putin stole the idea from the US
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/slam.html

As explained in the previous paragraph, it was impossible to test the SLAM over land, and about the only option was to fly it over U.S. possessions in the Pacific and then drop it into the ocean. However, the idea of dumping tons of highly radioactive junk into the biosphere wasn't sounding good even in the 1960s, and the question what to do when a flight test missile ran out of control couldn't be satisfactorily answered anyway. To top it off, the whole Pluto/SLAM program was rather expensive, and so it's not surprising that the program was finally cancelled in July 1964

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

A reactor made with weapons-grade uranium and lacking shielding can be made quite small.

 

[bilby]

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

A reactor made with weapons-grade uranium and lacking shielding can be made quite small.

If you really need to go small, then forget Uranium. Americium-242m can be made into truly tiny reactors - less than 10cm in diameter, and massing less than 5kg.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239521070_The_Smallest_Thermal_Nuclear_Reactor

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I did not know one can fit nuclear reactor into cruise missile. Torpedo I understand, they are bigger and have better cooling. Apparently it's easy.

A reactor made with weapons-grade uranium and lacking shielding can be made quite small.

If you really need to go small, then forget Uranium. Americium-242m can be made into truly tiny reactors - less than 10cm in diameter, and massing less than 5kg.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239521070_The_Smallest_Thermal_Nuclear_Reactor

Wow! Doesn't look useful for a cruise missile, though.