5 outrageous projects Russia's military says it's working on

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September 12, 2017 11:06 PM

Perhaps the craziest is the 'seeding' of the US shoreline with nukes.

Since President Vladimir Putin was ushered into power in 2000, t

1. That its new T-14 Armata tank will be able to run on Mars.

In late August, Sputnik, a Russian state-owned media outlet, said that the new T-14 tank would be "fit for Martian temperature."

Although it has yet to be mass produced, Russia is building a rather impressive T-14 tank, which is part of their new series of Armata

2. That its future MiG-41 will be able to fly in space.

The CEO of MiG told reporters in late August that the successor to the MiG-31, the MiG-41, would be able to fly in space.

While there are designs for the new interceptor, Russia won't begin building the MiG-41 until the mid 2020s, and it won't be ready for deployment until at least 2035.

Most experts doubt Moscow will even have the money for the project.

While it's not out of the realm out of possibility for the future MiG-41 to fly in space, given the MiG-31's capabilities, its highly unlikely — if its even built in the first place.

3. That its building a 115,000 ton aircraft carrier.

In 2015, Russia announced that it plans to build a 100,000 ton aircraft carrier, called Project 23000E Storm, and construction is supposedly going to begin in 2019.

However, because of many have labeled such plans as a "pipe dream."

And just last week, the Russian deputy prime minister,

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4. That its building a nuclear space bomber.

In July, Russia said it was building a space shuttle similar to the US' secretive X-37B, but with one difference — it could hit earth with nuclear warheads while in orbit.

Ironically, Russia accused the US in 2010 of trying to arm its X-37B, despite the craft being too small to do so.

Such a craft violates international law, and most likely will not be built for a number of reasons.

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5. That it has nuclear 'mole' missiles planted underwater along the US shoreline.

In May, a former spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense wrote an article in a Russian tabloid that Moscow was "quietly 'seeding' the US shoreline with nuclear 'mole' missiles ("they dig themselves in and 'sleep' until they are given the command" to denonate.

Experts, however, seriously doubted the claim and chalked it up to another arrow in Russia's hybrid warfare quiver.

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