{"id":149930,"date":"2022-11-11T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/us-observed-russian-navy-preparing-for-possible-test-of-nuclear-powered-torpedo"},"modified":"2022-11-11T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:24:05","slug":"us-observed-russian-navy-preparing-for-possible-test-of-nuclear-powered-torpedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/us-observed-russian-navy-preparing-for-possible-test-of-nuclear-powered-torpedo","title":{"rendered":"US observed Russian navy preparing for possible test of nuclear-powered torpedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-observed-russian-navy-preparing-for-possible-test-of-nuclear-powered-torpedo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US observed Russian naval vessels preparing for a possible test of a new nuclear-powered torpedo in recent weeks, a senior US official with direct knowledge told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Among the vessels which took part in the preparations was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/23\/europe\/russia-belgorod-submarine-nuclear-torpedo-intl-hnk-ml\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Belgorod, a cruise missile submarine<\/a> modified for special operations that is able to launch unmanned underwater vehicles including the Poseidon torpedo.<\/p>\n<p>In the last week, the vessels were observed leaving the testing area in the Arctic Sea and heading back to port without carrying out a test. The US believes the Russians may have encountered technical difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US observed Russian naval vessels preparing for a possible test of a new nuclear-powered torpedo in recent weeks, a senior US official with direct knowledge told CNN. Among the vessels which took part in the preparations was the Belgorod, a cruise missile submarine modified for special operations that is able to launch unmanned underwater [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149930","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}