Russia is now able to deploy a high-speed underwater missile so fast that a targeted ship would have little chance of escaping it, Jane's Intelligence Review reported.
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The development of the underwater missile launcher, known as Project 420 ( P420 ), was completed in 2001 and handed over to the Indian Navy for trials.
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One such weapon, called the Whitehead torpedo after its inventor, caused the word " torpedo " to apply to self-propelled underwater missiles as well as to static devices.
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Babkin, a professor at Moscow's prestigious Bauman Technical Institute, is charged with treason in the form of espionage for allegedly giving Pope secret information on the Shkval underwater missile.
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The Kingfisher C, later known as the AUM-2 and then as AUM-N-2 ( AUM representing Air-to-Underwater Missile ), was designed as an air-launched jet-powered missile which carried a torpedo warhead.
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Russian officials have described the weapon as an underwater missile that glides on huge air bubbles it creates as it goes, and can reach speeds of up to 225 mph.
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The Navy started using marine mammals in the early 1960s, when scientists began investigating whether the ultra-sleek shape of dolphins had hydrodynamic qualities that could be used to improve underwater missiles.
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Federal Security Service agents arrested Pope on April 3, charging he was seeking information about the top-secret underwater missiles deployed aboard the nuclear submarine Kursk, which was recently lost at sea.
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American Edmond Pope, arrested two weeks ago and charged with espionage, was seeking plans for an underwater missile fired by submarines, the Federal Security Service said Thursday, according to Russian news agencies.
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Russia is already able to deploy a high-speed underwater missile which would go so fast that a targeted ship would have very little chance to escape, Jane's Intelligence Review reported in its May supplement.
