VLADIMIR PUTIN’S new stealth submarine has sailed for the first time in terrifying sea trials.
The tyrant’s vessel will be equipped with deadly “unstoppable” 6,670mph nuclear missiles and is scheduled to go into service this year.
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Sources say that the Arkhangelsk sailed for the first time from the closed city of Severodvinsk on the White Sea, where it was constructed.
There was no official confirmation of the sea trials, but industry sources told state news agency TASS they began this week.
Video floating around online shows what could be the ultra military vessel sailing at sea.
The submarine is the latest Yasen-M or Project 885M vessel as Vladimir Putin massively boosts his underwater strike capability.
It will be capable of firing Tsirkon – or Zircon – nuclear missiles with a 620 mile range.
The submarines are also armed with Kalibr and Onyx cruise missiles.
It has superior stealth capabilities, advanced sonar systems, and updated combat systems compared with previous Russian submarines.
An earlier submarine in the Yasen-M series – Kazan – sailed this week to Cuba in a show of strength designed to be noticed in the US.
The vessels are known for their stealth capabilities as well as their strike potential.
They are seen as hard to track for Western navies.
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The sea trials will be followed by state trials before the Arkhangelsk joins Putin’s navy later this year.
The fleet was seen passing just 25 miles from the United States in a chilling echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The hypersonic missile carrier is leading a four-strong naval flotilla, including a nuclear submarine Kazan and two other naval vessels right on President Joe Biden’s doorstep.
Footage has emerged of Mad Vlad’s fleet engaging in war games in the Atlantic just days after it was announced that Russian warships would be sent to the Caribbean for military drills.
And after the sabre-rattle in the backyard of Havana, the fleet is also expected to make port calls in Venenzuela – one of America’s long-sworn enemies.
Admiral Gorshkov displayed a huge Z – the sign of Putin’s war in Ukraine which has plunged the world closer to nuclear collision than any time since the Cold War.
And Cubans were seen blasting cannon fire from an 18th-century colonial fort to give the fleet a grand welcome.
A despotic Putin sees it as a tit-for-tat for the US, Britain and France supplying Ukraine with missiles for use on his territory.
He suggested that Moscow could take “asymmetrical steps” elsewhere in the world in response to Biden’s call to allow Ukraine to use US-made weapons to strike Russia.
It’s not the first time Russia has sent its ships to the Caribbean.
Last year, the Russian navy’s training class ship Perekop sailed into Havana, while Admiral Gorshkov was spotted in the same harbour in 2019.
The Biden official stressed that the recent move is certainly part of a Russian response to the US’s support for Ukraine but also an attempt for Putin to show off his navy – after losing several ships to Ukrainian strikes.
“This is about Russia showing that it’s still capable of some level of global power projection,” the official said.
Russia‘s close relationship with Cuba goes way back in time – as the death of Fidel Castro marked a symbolic end to the Cold War.
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