Vladimir Putin mass producing 'mobile nuclear bunkers' as tensions with West escalate

The shelters supply extortion against airy radiation from a atomic detonation amid fears that Putin could trigger 'Armageddon' if Ukraine attacks Russia utilizing NATO weapons

Russia is launching wide accumulation of mobile nuclear warfare shelters.

The determination comes 1,000 days into the struggle with Ukraine amid acute interest that Vladimir Putin could trigger atomic war. He contiguous rewrote Russia’s atomic doctrine to suggest helium mightiness trigger Armageddon if Ukraine strikes his territory with NATO-supplied weapons.

Such a onslaught connected an ammunition arsenal successful Bryansk portion with ATACMS US-supplied missiles has present been admitted by his ain defence ministry. For the archetypal time, Russia has gone into serial accumulation of mobile atomic shelters.

These are intended to springiness extortion from the airy radiation of a atomic detonation and radioactive contamination of the area, according to the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defence and Emergencies. One variant is called Kub-M manufactured successful the metropolis of Dzerzhinsk, named aft brutal Felix Dzerzhinsky, laminitis of the Soviet concealed police.

This is simply a £300,000 mobile structure and tin beryllium transported by roadworthy oregon rail, said the Moscow Times. It tin acceptable 54 radical but its capableness tin beryllium accrued by 150 radical by adding further blocks if necessary.

It “provides reliable extortion against aerial daze waves, explosive and fragmentation effects of accepted weapons, falling debris from gathering structures, arsenic good arsenic toxic, chemical, and radioactive substances, and penetrating radiation”. Once placed connected a prepared site, Kub-M modules are connected to existing inferior networks.

In their absence, it is capable to run autonomously for up to 2 days. In specified a scenario, it is equipped with life-support systems similar aerial filtration and regeneration, backup h2o supply, sewage, and heating.

The shelters are designed to “protect the colonisation from the effects of each types of modern weapons, including atomic weapons”. How effectual they would beryllium is unfastened to question.

Separately, Russia has a web of bunkers for its elder civilian and subject officials is each regions of the state which spans 11-time zones. The mobile shelters are a agelong mode from Putin’s ain bunkers.

He has a caller atomic power centre - believed to beryllium an underground metropolis - wherever helium tin unrecorded for years with his household and starring apparatchiks. The determination of the bid and power bunker adjacent Ufa, superior of the Bashkortostan republic - immoderate 725 miles eastbound of Moscow.

On Putin’s orders, erstwhile defence curate Sergei Shoigu operated from present aboriginal successful the warfare successful 2022. But Putin’s notorious web of palaces are besides believed to person concealed bunkers offering VIP accommodation and surviving facilities.