How does the new Rusian cruise missile work?
The 9M730 Burevestnik (Russian: Буревестник; "Petrel", NATO reporting name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. The missile has an essentially unlimited range.
The Burevestnik is one of the six new Russian strategic weapons unveiled by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018.
The Soviet Union and later Russia have been uncertain since the 1980s to what extent their ICBM nuclear arsenal ...
Is it a nuclear ramjet engine?
Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear-powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles. Two experimental engines were tested at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in 1961 and 1964 respectively.
On 1 January 1957, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory to study the feasibility of applying heat from a nuclear reactor to power a ramjet engine for a Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. This would have many advant...
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Not much detail there, but that sounds an awful lot like the SLAM, the last link in the “see also” section. The engineers designing it joked that the acronym actually stood for “slow, low, and messy”, and it was ultimately abandoned as being far less practical than an ICBM (of which Russia already has plenty).