Russia's New Mega Submarine, Belgorod

Today, the world's largest new submarines are for spy missions. Harking back to the mystery surrounding submarines during the Cold War, Russia's newest type defies belief. It is massive, the largest type since the ginormous Typhoon Class. And it is designed for a novel and unique combination of roles.

[pilotactor]

Love this unscripted style-from a man who really knows his stuff. Great work mate.!!!

[ramatgan]

Russia makes its own cars, ships, planes, tanks, missiles everything you can think of they make it.
The country is amazing.
Watching from Somalia.

[hollowkos]

Ah so you're the guy from that submarine site!?
I must say every time I ended up on there because of those fantastic renderings and drawings I was stricken by the effort and passion.
Wonderful content!

[AckzaTV]

Man, when Russia wants to build something big, new and hi tech acomplished they always get it done even with their other life problems out there...

[urdnotwrex]

ppl in comment are somehow biased. Russia said what Kalibr was about to do and everybody laughed that they cant have such technology. In Ukraine we all saw what Kalibr did. They now saying what kind of torpedo they have. Everybody is AGAIN laughing. Do you want them to test it or what?

[celloheaven]

Mr Sutton...I've just discovered your channel and now regard it as the gold standard. Excellent level balanced presentation with superb detail. Thank you for all your hard work.

[IsaacKuo]

This is such a crazy submarine system! I feel like the reason the Russians have built this is because they can. Whether or not there is an obvious immediate need or advantage to these submarine systems, the only way to keep up expertise in building and operating these things is to keep on making and operating them.

[Waltham]

Russia has just introduced a new submarine class, the Moskva.

[FlyingVolvo]

You should be very pleased with the videos you put out. All of your stuff is independently verifiable and you clearly mark the basis of your analysis on what is reasonable rather then what draws the most clicks. I hope you continue to do these as long as you feel you have something to contribute since they are an excellent digestable format for those who don't have the time nor technical experience to do all the legwork needed to come to the same conclusion.

[farisshaikh]

I have a theory, The belgorod's loshark, has a secondary function besides espionage. It is meant to dive extremely deep and recovery a spent or deactivated nuclear powered torpedo. Say the russain deploy the weapon debace they fear nuclear escalation, to generate second strike capability in case russia itself, and its other traditional nuclear delivery systems, are destroyed. But war is averted, and well you can't exactly back this huge torpedo back into its tube, like regular test torpedos you need someone to go dive down and recover it. Hence loshark.

[shiftlessalaska]

Have you considered the Belgorod's "torpedoes" are not true torpedoes at all. But rather nuclear powered drones. Designed to be deployed and loiter/linger indefinitely until recovered by the Loshark (or similar daughter sub).

[ns-jw]

Perhaps the primary goal is providing deterrence against a carrier battle group with those large nuclear torpedoes?
Russia knows it will always be outnumbered at sea so this makes even a small fleet a threat to a larger cbg. For e.g. during the 1971 Bangladesh war of Independence, Task force 74 was about to enforce a no fly-zone over India but the presence of a smaller Soviet fleet(with a nuclear sub) drove up the risk factor and the cbg did not get involved.

[PolishNomad]

Considering all the info about the state of the Russian fleet that has leaked the last few months I wouldn't be surprised if this thing barely works and will spend 90% of its service life in drydock

[MrVsTH]

Yeah wow, seeing the "mini-sub" is 70m long really puts this monster into perspective.

[craigywaigy]

Great video - :)
@ 20:30 ish, I'd argue that the carrier strike group attacking feature of Poseidon is one of it's main functions, alongside its tactical coastal strike one.
Consider that the nuclear warhead is used in more than one way, and tsunami generation is one of the primary attack uses ie very effective at coastal destruction and human life loss, and overwhelming ships with artificial waves.
Furthermore the detonation of a large nuclear weapon below a carrier ground(100m's below) would initially generate devastating pressure waves(killing all humans nearby and damaging naval structures), but more importantly the vapourisation of the surrounding water, combined with the pressure waves and cavitation would greatly reduce any regional water bouyancy, so in effect it is an optimised weapon for this role, especially considering its AI control.
Bloody terrifying!

[Rubashow]

Nice submarine guys. Just be careful loading those torpedos, okay?

[NorceCodine]

Poseidon is an autonomous, AI-capable, nuclear-reactor powered weapon which once launched, can patrol the oceans on its own indefinitely, or lay low for years in the deep, evading detection. If a few dozen are released, then for the enemy sailing the oceans is a huge risk - its like walking on a minefield where the mines have brains and can corner you.

[akbarshoed]

"Extreme" submarine? Do the US have "extreme" carriers flying "extreme" aircraft?

[tuberroot]

The size and depth of Poseidon would suggest its primary ability is not to attack surface vessels. It is more likely that a massive underwater detonation off the coast of California could trigger an earthquake and also a tidal wave to take out a large part of the west coast or a similar attack on NYC.

[williemcdowell]

You do not come across informative documentaries like these very often this needs to go viral