{"id":100398,"date":"2020-01-02T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/leak-may-reveal-russias-answer-to-the-virginia-class-attack-submarine"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:11:21","slug":"leak-may-reveal-russias-answer-to-the-virginia-class-attack-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/leak-may-reveal-russias-answer-to-the-virginia-class-attack-submarine","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leak\u2019 May Reveal Russia\u2019s Answer To The Virginia Class Attack Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leak-may-reveal-russias-answer-to-the-virginia-class-attack-submarine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Russian State-owned TV channel recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1tv.ru\/news\/issue\/2019-12-24\/18:00#1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aired a segment<\/a> which may give the first glimpse of a new Russian submarine design. In the corner of one scene (@ 2.48 minutes into the recording) it showed an official model of a new submarine together with previously known types. The <em>Laika Class<\/em> sub has until now been shrouded in secrecy. It is generally analogous to the Virginia Class attack submarine in service with the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Such a \u2018leak\u2019 was probably deliberate, something that Russia has been suspected of before. On November 9, 2015, Russian TV station NTV revealed the Poseidon Intercontinental Nuclear-Powered Nuclear-Armed Autonomous Torpedo to the world. Then called \u2018Status-6,\u2019 it was seen over the shoulder of an officer in a partially televised meeting with President Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The new sub will primarily be a hunter-killer, meaning that it is designed to counter western nuclear-powered submarines. But it will also carry a range of cruise missiles, including the hypersonic Zircon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian State-owned TV channel recently aired a segment which may give the first glimpse of a new Russian submarine design. In the corner of one scene (@ 2.48 minutes into the recording) it showed an official model of a new submarine together with previously known types. The Laika Class sub has until now been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}