The Soviet Thermonuclear Aviation Bomb An602, known as the “Tsar Bomb”, was useless for the application of shots in the 1960s, recognizes the American magazine The National Interest.
The publication notes that the bomb was too heavy for long-distance transportation, because this weapon did not make sense to use against the enemy having a developed anti-air defense (air defense).
The magazine reminds that 26.5-ton An602 in length reached eight meters, and its aircraft, Soviet Tu-95, lost the suspension fuel tanks, as a result of which could not overcome the distance from the USSR to the United States.
In March “Roskosmos” reported that the Scientific and Production Association (NGOs) “Energomash” completed a three-month cycle of eight fire tests of the first convectional liquid rocket power unit of the RD-171MV, known as “King Engine”.
In November 2019, the constructor of space systems and political scientist Sergey Khrushchev, the son of the former first secretary of the Central Committee (Central Committee) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Nikita Khrushchev, in a conversation with the radio station “says Moscow” said that the test of the most powerful Soviet world Thermonuclear An602 took place on the initiative of the physics of Andrei Sakharov.
In October of the same year, La Vanguardia was called “Tsar-Bomb” useless due to difficulties with transportation and the fact that with its explosion most of the energy went into space.