At
least two Russian television channels, NTV and Channel One, have aired
footage on Tuesday showing plans of a never disclosed before nuclear
torpedo. Footage shows a Russian military official holding a document
containing technical drawings and information about a new "Status-6"
torpedo designed by Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering “Rubin”.
This was filmed during a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin
with military officials in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
The Status-6 torpedoes would target “economically important enemy
facilities in coastal regions” by creating “zones of extensive
radioactive contamination making them unsuitable for military or economic
activity for a long period,” the document says. |
"The
Kremlin admitd that television channels have shown secret data and hopes
this situation will not happen in future again" presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
"It is true that some secret data was captured by TV cameras.
Therefore, it was subsequently deleted," Peskov said. "We
hope this will never happen again," he added. The Kremlin
spokesman said he "does not know about any measures so far
[to punish the guilty persons]." "We will undoubtedly take
preventive measures in future so that a similar situation does not happen
again," the spokesman said.
Some experts in the west raised a question however: Was this a genuine
unintentional mistake or rather a controlled "leak" ?
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