{"id":121297,"date":"2021-04-06T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/satellite-images-show-huge-russian-military-buildup-in-the-arctic"},"modified":"2021-04-06T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:25:50","slug":"satellite-images-show-huge-russian-military-buildup-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/satellite-images-show-huge-russian-military-buildup-in-the-arctic","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/satellite-images-show-huge-russian-military-buildup-in-the-arctic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/russia\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Russia is amassing unprecedented military might\"> Russia is amassing unprecedented military might<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/arctic\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Arctic\"> Arctic<\/a> and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Weapons experts and Western officials have expressed particular concern about one Russian \u2018super-weapon,\u2019 the Poseidon 2M39 torpedo. Development of the torpedo is moving fast with Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting an update on a \u201ckey stage\u201d of the tests in February from his defence minister Sergei Shoigu, with further tests planned this year, according to multiple reports in state media.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/news-world-drones-the-future-of-underwater-warfare\/658c941c-5827-43ff-9a96-bbe97260ca7f\" target=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"unmanned stealth torpedo\"> unmanned stealth torpedo<\/a> is powered by a nuclear reactor and intended by Russian designers to sneak past coastal defences \u2014 like those of the US \u2014 on the sea floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe. Weapons experts and Western officials have expressed particular concern about one Russian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,9,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121297","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}