TWICE as powerful: Russia to build new monster nuclear icebreaker for Arctic sea route. The world's most powerful nuclear icebreaker is set to be built in Russia – again.
The new vessel, to be delivered in late 2020s, will dwarf the power of existing icebreakers, with its new 120-Megawatt powerplant. Dubbed 'Leader,' the new Project 10510 icebreaker got the green light on Thursday, when Russia's Far East Zvezda shipyard and the Rosatomflot company signed the contract for its construction. Due to the coronavirus restrictions in place, the contract was signed via video link.
The 'Leader,' conceived back in 2016, dwarfs any existing nuclear-powered icebreaker, including Russia's – and the world's– most powerful Project 22220 icebreakers, currently under construction. The maiden vessel of that project, Arktika, is currently undergoing trials and is expected to join the fleet later this year, while two other ships of this type are set to be launched in the next two years.
While the Arktika is capable of breaking three-meter-thick ice, the new Leader icebreakers will be able to cut through a 4.3 meter-thick ice sheet, as well as to stay at sea for eight months without entering a port. The new icebreakers will pack twice as much punch, boasting a 120-MWatt powerplant, compared to the 60-MWatt output of the Arktika.
Americans are sucking Communist Chinese ass for decades. Americans moved 95% of their manufacture to Communist China. Americans made Communist China wealthy and a superpower. Americans now crying that Communist China dry fucks them. Americans are stupid. Case closed. Point proven.
Luke Moore
us pathetic lies on landing. take away the nazi war criminals and a few jews and US never had tech
Oliver Morgan
>us pathetic lies on landing. take away the nazi war criminals and a few jews and US never had tech Lol. Not even bread slicing machine ...?
Carter Howard
you mean a knife?
Julian Jones
>4.3 meter-thick ice sheet the majority of the ice path between us and Russia is 104 meters thick. this ship is basically a floating cuck shack
Zachary Brooks
i guess the arctic sea becomes irradiated sludge next
Oliver Brown
>104 meters thick You have to be at least 18 years of age to post here, Zhang.
>sorry this subreddit is not about real politics Newfag RETARD. Learn what Yas Forums topics could be about according to the rules. And go eat shit. Your own.
Landon Rogers
>late 2020s kek
James Hughes
Thank God that not all Americans are stupid like Trump. Trump in 2016 was projecting so much hope and optimism, but now he is absolute cancer.
Gavin Williams
>an ice breaker
Justin Miller
There would be a huge market for 120MW nuclear power plants for commercial shipping. Now the "slow steaming" container ships crawl at less than 15 knots, with some nuclear juice they would go 30-35 knots and halve the shipping times, no emissions and they could sell 120MW of electricity when in port. That kind of ship would make more than twice of money compared to some bunker oil barge they use now.
Sea merchant here, Those icebreakers are more important than you might think. For hundreds of years the route from Europe to Asia was to go under Africa. When the Suez canal opened it saved a lot of time, because you'd go through the Mediterranean Sea straight to Asia and it was a big deal. Now that the ice thickness is lowering people can take the northern route, over Scandinavia and Russia to Asia which again saves time, money, etc.
The ONLY country right now with capable icebreakers is Russia. This means that all money paid to hire the icebreaker will go to the Russian state and currently the amount of ships taking the northern route is exploding meaning that Russia gets more and more money and will have direct control over an increasing part of world shipping, which means control of world economy (90% of all globally sold goods are delivered by ship)
