Some projects are so crazy you have to wonder what the brains of the people who come up with them are. This applies not least to a Russian rearmament project.
One of these mothball ideas is simply the nuclear propulsion of missiles, for military purposes, of course. Americans were honest enough to name their project Pluto, after the god of the underworld. The Russians, in keeping with their sunny disposition, call it “Burevestnik” (“petrel”). That sounds a lot more positive. The name is also apt – if the concept works, a device like the Petrel can stay in the air for weeks.
It is apparently a cruise missile forty feet long and three feet across, powered not by a jet engine but by a small nuclear reactor. How does that work?
Source: Krone
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